51A

About the Book

51A is an electrifying novel dealing with a social service agency. The novel is presented in a series of vignettes dealing with management, attorneys, their supervisors, other personnel, clients, judges, probation officers, police officers and children who have been sexually, physically and emotionally abused. You will experience what happens to children at home, in foster care, at school and how they react to various types of abuse. And how social workers react when they, themselves, or their clients are abused within the system. Yes, little stories make a big picture. You will cry. You will laugh. You will become enraged by injustice, cruelty and incompetence in the very places you would least expect it.

About the Author

After careers in the private practice of Law, as Assistant District Attorney in Boston, as Director of the First Student Prosecutor Program in the country, Frank Brennan accepted an offer as counsel to the newly formed Department of Social Services in June 1980. He served in that capacity for Cape Cod and the Islands until July 1990.