Daddy's girl - Marian O'Neill

'Lisa loved the stories about how handsome her dad was, how his hair licked down low over his face, almost as low as his chin, and how his trousers clung tight and his shirts gleamed white. How all the girls flocked and twirled around him as he stood sideways to the mike, clicking his fingers with a swing to the beat ...'
Eleven-year-old Lisa loves her mother dearly, and lives for the stories of her hero father who drowned saving someone's life. Her youth is one of fairy-tale and fable, cut off from her extended family, a mother and daughter alone against the world.
But the stories that fired Lisa's imagination as a child now obsess her as an adult. Her quest for the father she never knew risks devastating not just her mother, but the very memories Lisa herself depends upon ...