Tales from Portlaw Volume Seven - The Life of Liam Lafferty

I grew up on my mother’s stories. Although an Irish woman of small stature and imaginative mind, stories didn’t come any ’taller’ than those tales told by my mother. They would stretch the bounds of one’s credulity beyond the realms of possibility, and yet, she always made me ’want to believe them’. I have taken the germ of her fact and added a bit of my fiction with a dash of author licence. This seventh volume of ’Tales from Portlaw’ tells about the life and times of Liam Lafferty. It is a story involving being reared without the benefit of parents, a life of hard work and a marriage with one’s first love. The story also touches upon bereavement and its effects within the life of various family members. The tale is a story of hope for the future in the life of any good person.