Book Review:This novel is about a girl from a middle-class Midlands family in the seventies whose unwanted pregnancy brings her face to face with the awful dilemma which some 10,000 unmarried Irish girls every year solve by making a tragic journey to Britain.
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Emma Cooke was born in Portarlington, Co. Laois, Ireland in 1934. She achieved a diploma in philosophy in Mary Emmaculata College in Limerick. A winner of Francis MacManus award with the story ‘An Internation Incident’, Cooke has published four books. A Single Sensation is about the dilemma faced by very many women in the seventies and beyond in Ireland.