TINKER TAILOR WIFE OF A SAILOR ... AND ALL THINGS IN BETWEEN

This is a story of a woman's journey; back over her lifetime, to find out who she is now. The journey takes her back in time to her Irish Catholic roots, to the infamous Molloy's Lane, an old Newfoundland saltbox dwelling that housed her family of ten which they also shared with a family of six. They were poor and she had red hair - her father loved the bottle and her mother loved the church. A stay at home mother on a sabbatical from teaching, she is struggling to find out who she is. She knows she is "mother and wife" but it is a skin that just doesn't seem to fitWas she: Tinker, Tailor, Wife of a sailor Rich-man, Poor-man, Beggar-man, Thief Teacher, Artist, Philosopher, Healer Mother, Handyman, Chief...and all things in between?If she is a mother, then what kind of mother is she? In order to answer that question she feels she has to go back in time to see what goes into the making of a mother and find out what a mother really is. She travels back to her childhood, where she walks you through an estranged relationship with her own mother. She shares the many adventures of growing up in an Irish Catholic alcoholic home. She introduces you to the characters that came and went and moulded her into the woman that she is today. The journey is filled with antics, superstition and amusement - there is tragedy, conflict, disillusionment, bitterness and hate, but there is love, humour and joy as well. She still laughs and cries in the re-telling of it.Jack of all trades...master of none, nay! Her excursions take you to a time where she wears many different hats. Her quest was to find out what hat was the best fit for her and her life purpose, only to find out that she is all of them and many things in between. In her search for the hat that fits she finds out that they were all worthy and contributed to the woman she is today. She sees what her legacy has been, good and bad. She wonders if that same legacy is inadvertently entrenched into the next generation, and wonders if that may not be such a bad thing! It will intrigue you how many times you will find yourself and your hat in her story.