Sharon briefly questions if the encounter was sexual assault, an interpretation that has found traction among readers. Instead, his identity becomes common knowledge when George Burgess, the father of Sharon's friend, Yvonne, leaves his wife and claims to feel torn between her and Sharon: George is the father, the pair have had a sexual encounter while drunk. Sharon's friends are as interested as her family in the father's identity, but she refuses to tell them. then invites Sharon out to the local pub for a drink. Though they ask about the father's identity, Sharon does not tell them. When twenty-year-old Sharon informs her father, Jimmy Sr., and mother, Veronica, about her pregnancy, they aren't thrilled but do not display histrionics. The plot revolves around unmarried Sharon Rabbitte's pregnancy, and the unexpected effects this has on her conservative, working-class Dublin family.
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