The Byrnes are a fishing family living a life of grinding poverty on the Connemara coast. Dympna the only girl adores her father Micheal. She does her best to help her English mother & the family rub along by working very hard & expecting little. But beneath the smooth-seeming surface there are hidden secrets. Beatrice idolises her clever eldest son but her attitude to her husband & to Dympna is puzzling. Yet when the family desperately needs money it is Dympna who crosses the water to Liverpool to send money back for them. Meanwhile in Liverpool orphaned half-starved Jimmy Ruddock struggles to escape from his background with little success until he meets Elsie a tough young slum-dweller who helps him to better himself. Then he starts work abroad a Fleetwood trawler & meets up with Dympna... Set in the late 1920s & 30s No Silver Spoon charts the pleasures & pains of life
- & love
- in the glorious countryside of Connemara & in the fiercely competitive streets of the Liverpool slums. It confirms Katie Flynn as one of the most beloved & bestselling saga writers in Britain.