Once Piers Delano took charge, things moved swiftly.

And young Siobhan was also bundled along to the hospital, as someone informed her, despite her reluctance to go along with the strangers.

Siobhan Sweeny was flustered. She never let anyone get to her, had never known what love was.

As for making out, she had been too disgusted with the creeps who kept climbing into her bed when her ma was out, dead drunk, to want to chance it with a boy of her age. Fighting her mother’s ...