Beach Bar
Kate McCabe
Sold by MusicMagpie, Stockport, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 4 December 2017
Used - Soft cover
Condition: Used - Very good
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Add to basketSold by MusicMagpie, Stockport, United Kingdom
AbeBooks Seller since 4 December 2017
Condition: Used - Very good
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketIt seemed the perfect life and she was the perfect girl to fill it. But as
she got older Emma came up against reality. Even though she was very
attractive, with soft blue eyes and a slim figure, it soon became obvious
that, at five feet five inches, she was too small to be a model. The
agencies seemed to want girls six feet tall whose legs went up to their
armpits. As for acting, Emma quickly discovered that she would have a
quieter time training Bengal tigers than she would competing with the
aspiring young things who wanted to get into the movies. In any case, an
accident intervened and she ended up running the family business.
Her father, Joe, had built up the Hi-Speed Printing Company from scratch,
starting in 1970 with a small office in the inner city. He ran off
handbills and posters and invitation cards on an old press that regularly
threatened to break down just at a crucial moment when a large rush order
had to be delivered. He had combed the city for business, a virtual
one-man band, knocking on doors, phoning concert promoters, calling at
bingo halls - anywhere there was the prospect that someone might want a
printing job done. He left for work at seven o'clock each morning and often
didn't return till after midnight. Joe Dunne was a determined man but he
wasn't proud. He would never turn down an order, no matter how small. It
was all money and it paid the bills.
And the business prospered. Joe slowly gained a reputation for fine quality
work and reliability. And his prices were always keen. In time, he was able
to afford a new state-of-the-art press that could produce glossy colour
brochures and catalogues by the thousand at the touch of a button. His
orders grew and he hired more staff - master printers whose work was the
best in town. The business expanded and he moved from his cramped little
premises in Talbot Street to a spanking new facility in an industrial
estate in Baldoyle. Joe drove a BMW, took the family on holidays to
Florida for three weeks every June and bought a new detached house with
gardens by the sea in Sutton, where they had views of the Dublin Mountains.
He didn't go around boasting but he liked to think that all the hard work
had finally paid off and now he had arrived.
But while those were his glory years and Joe liked to look back on them
with a nostalgic smile, Emma and her mother were convinced that was when
the damage was done. It was the pressure of those early years - the long
working days, the rushed fast-food meals, the threatening deadlines, the
near disasters, the nerve-racking crises when the old printing press
threatened to collapse - that caused the heart condition that eventually
forced Joe to retire from the business at fifty-eight and hand it over to
Emma.
She was preparing for her Leaving Cert. when the news broke about her
father's heart. He had been complaining about breathlessness for some time
but he was one of those men who paid little attention to his health. Even
though his wife, Nancy, had badgered him for months to go and see Dr Fagan,
Joe kept putting it off. He was just a bit overweight, he would say. Why
take up the doctor's valuable time when there were more deserving poor
devils with real problems to complain about? Besides, Dr Fagan would think
he was a hypochondriac if he went running to see him every time he was a
little bit out of breath.
Matters came to a head one bright Sunday afternoon on the seventh hole at
Deerpark golf course, where Joe liked to play a round of golf with his
pals. He had just teed off when he felt a sharp pain shoot along his left
arm and into his chest. Next minute he was lying on the ground and someone
was beating on his breast while someone else attempted to give him
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Joe didn't remember any more till he woke up
several hours later in the cardiology department of Beaumont hospital.
It turned out that the main artery to his heart was almost blocked with
atherosclerotic plaque. He remained in hospital for two weeks while the
surgeons performed a triple-bypass operation to allow the passage of blood
to his heart. After the operation, a consultant sat down with Joe and had a
long talk with him. He told him he was lucky to be alive. He would have to
change his busy lifestyle. He would have to slow down and take things
easy.
After he was discharged, the family held a council. They sat around the big
dining table while they tried to decide what to do. Joe was reluctant to
take the doctor's advice. He felt he could still continue to run the
company if he just cut back a little and delegated more responsibility. But
this time Nancy was determined to put her foot down. Joe had worked hard
for long enough. The time had come to retire completely from the business
and hand it over to someone else.
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