Black Baby

by Clare Boylan

Book Overview

As a child Alice had paid the nuns half a crown to adopt a black baby from the mission in Africa - a baby that never appeared. Now a loveless spinster of sixty-seven, still yearning for a daughter,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385261012
• ISBN13: 9780385261012
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Dinah Comes Home!

"Black Baby" by Clare Boylan is an incredibly comical story about an elderly,innocent and frail woman,Alice,who adopted a black baby from a mission in Africa for half a crown when she was a child.Fifty years hence, Alice has forgotten all about the adoption until Dinah, her adopted black baby, turns up on her doorstep. Dinah is a little baby no longer, but an oversized black woman dressed in a tight leather and red stiletto heels. They embark on a hilarious journey of discovery that enriches both their lives. They are each others salvation and redemption.