A History of Running Away

Paula Mcgrath

Book of the Year in the Irish Times

'A wonderful storyteller' Joseph O'Connor

On the quays of Dublin Jasmine is running training for a fight she can't compete in. It's 1982 and boxing is illegal for girls.

For Jasmine boxing is everything: after running away from home and narrowly escaping a risky situation in London it is all she has to claim as her own. But with a legal fight impossible and a ghost from her past on her trail where can it end?

A History of Running Away is a brilliantly written novel about growing up starting over and learning to fight for yourself.

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