Book review: Overcoming: A memoir by Vicky Phelan

A youth marked by courage, and an adulthood of advocacy

Vicky Phelan: a powerful campaigner working to make the country better RollingNews

MEMOIR: Overcoming: A Memoir: By Vicky Phelan with Naomi Linehan; Hachette Books Ireland, €17.95

When Vicky Phelan was aged just three and three-quarters, she announced to her bemused mother that she was going to start school that September. Her mother told her that she was too young – she wouldn’t be four until October. But little Vicky was determined, and eventually her mother suggested that they go and talk to the school’s principal, ...