# Fiona’s Story

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- Authors: [Irene Ivison](https://www.bookquiver.com/irene-ivison)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 1997-05-01

## Description

As Irene Ivison read this in a newspaper at home in Sheffield she instinctively knew it was her child Fiona. Despite her desperate and insistent attempts to bring her daughter home - calling in social workers and police to help - the young teenager slipped through the net that her safe middle-class upbringing offered her, and ended up in the hands of pimps and drug-dealers. Her daughter's brutal death was the pitiful end of the promising life of an impressionable but high-spirited teenager who was determined to live her own life. But it was a beginning of sorts too. Just as Cathy Comes Home prompted a public reaction in the sixties, here a mother tells Fiona's Story in the hope that others will hear and respond to the urgent issues her death highlights: how, in allowing children their rights we also compromise parents' power to protect and, the urgent need for society to take responsiblity for young prostitutes.

## Editions

### Fiona’s Story

- Publisher: virago
- ISBN: 978-18-6049-199-3
- Pages: 1
- Published: 1997-05-01
- Language: en_GB