# A Swift Pure Cry

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- Book: [A Swift Pure Cry](https://www.bookquiver.com/siobhan-dowd/a-swift-pure-cry) ([A Swift Pure Cry.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/siobhan-dowd/a-swift-pure-cry.md))
- Authors: [Siobhan Dowd](https://www.bookquiver.com/siobhan-dowd)
- Publisher: David Fickling Books
- ISBN: 978-04-4042-218-1
- Pages: 320
- Published: 2008-09-09
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Ireland 1984. After Shell's mother dies, her obsessively religious father descends into alcoholic mourning and Shell is left to care for her younger brother and sister. Her only release from the harshness...