The Dionnes

by Ellie Tesher

Book Overview

A sensitive and candid inside account of the struggles of the Dionne quintuplets, from million-dollar babies to impoverished adults, and their ultimate triumph in the battle for compensation after years of exploitation. In February 1998, a press conference was held by three tired 63-year-old women, who held up a sign that read JUSTICE NOT CHARITY. Eight days later, the Ontario government -- who had ignored the three surviving Dionne quintuplets' pleas...

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0770428312
• ISBN13: 9780770428310
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: Seal Books
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.

Customer Reviews

They didn't have it so good...

The true story of the Dionne Quints, and how their life was not a story-book one as painted by the media and the Canadian government. What these women went through is tragic.A book to finally set the record straight!

Not your standard Dionne biography

Tescher's interest is not the happy-go-lucky little girls that adorned newspapers and goods in the 1930s but the adult Dionnes, ill-equipped to function in the real world. Until their recent financial settlement with the Ontario government they knew terrible poverty and have been marked their entire lives by their famous birth. An unusual angle to a fascinating subject.