The Rat-Pit is a companion piece to Patrick MacGill’s Children of the Dead End - it tells the story of Norah Ryan, the childhood sweetheart of Dermod Flynn the central character in Children of the Dead End. Her descent through betrayal, the birth of an illegitimate child, life in a Glasgow lodging house (the rat-pit of the title), sweated work as a piecework seamstress, prostitution and death is recounted in graphic and harrowing detail.
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