When, one dark night in 1939, Theresa Nolan was
brutally raped by three young men, it was the beginning of a series
of tragic and dramatic events. For the youths were not criminals or
vagrants, but the sons of wealthy and privileged businessmen.
Pregnant, thrown out of her home by her bigoted father, Theresa vows
a lifetime of vengeance on the men who had wrecked her future.
Physically frail, but filled with a burning anger that fuelled her
weak body, she determined that nothing and no-one was going to
deflect her from her path of retribution, not even the gentle man
who cared for her during her sickness, the man she eventually came
to love. But there were others caught in the web of violence and
deceit: Bernard Walsh and his brother Danny, and Eva, the midwife
who had befriended Theresa and had seen her through her pregnancy.
Above all, there were two children, bonded together from birth,
whose lives were to play their part in the drama of Theresa Nolan. |