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category: Biography & Autobiography
published: Sep 2014
ISBN:9781771030779
publisher: Breakwater Books Ltd.

No Turning Back

Surviving the Linehan Family Tragedy

by Ida Linehan Young

tagged: personal memoirs
Description

On a June night in 1980, the Linehan household in North Harbour went up in flames. In moments the fire consumed the family’s ordinary, loving lives and innocent, human faith that life would always be as it was. Ida, the middle of three girls and one of ten siblings, survived the blaze only to endure weeks and months of treatment and recovery. Her only goal is to spare her family more pain, and she quietly promises herself never to quit and never to complain. She only wants life to be normal, but is that the same as being healed? In straightforward prose and an open-hearted manner, Ida Linehan Young paints a series of vivid, haunting pictures as she recounts a remarkable story.

About the Author

Ida Linehan Young

First and foremost, Ida Linehan Young is a grandmother to the most precious little boys, Parker and Samuel, a mother to three adult children, Sharon, Stacey, and Shawna, and a wife to Thomas. In her busy daily life, Ida works in the information technology sector of the federal government of Canada, and she volunteers her time in the community of Conception Bay South with the Kiwanis Club of Kelligrews. Ida had a fascination with writing in her high school days, when she dabbled in poetry and essays. In 2012, she became serious about her writing with a story to tell, and that led to her memoir, No Turning Back: Surviving the Linehan Family Tragedy, in 2014. Having found a passion for writing and with a love of local history and lore, she published several historical novels, Being Mary Ro, (2018), The Promise (2019), The Liars (2020), and The Stolen Ones (2021). In June 2021, the first three novels in the series were issued the Silver Medal for Best Series—Fiction by the Independent Publisher Book Awards. The fourth in the series, The Stolen Ones, is a finalist for the NL Reads 2022 competition and the Margaret Duley Award. With strong influences of the familial art of storytelling passed down by her father, Ed Linehan, and her maternal grandfather, Frank Power, Ida writes stories about her beloved province, Newfoundland and Labrador. She enjoys researching events of the late nineteenth century and weaving fictional characters through historical tales that complement that cultural richness and renews and regenerates interest in our storied past. Follow Ida on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram: @idalinehanyoung or on her website: www.idalinehanyoung.ca.

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