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Author_Meg Hutchinson
Brilliant storyline
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Excellent read
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Feel-good read
Festive read
Great read
Great reviews
Heart-warming
Historical
Historical saga
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Land Girls
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Lovely saga
Mr Selfridge
Realistic
Realistic saga
Recommended by readers
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Product details
- ISBN 9780340738580
- Weight: 236g
- Dimensions: 111 x 175mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jan 2001
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Agnes Ridley has a cruel tongue and a heart of stone: when she discovers housemaid Lizzie Burton has fallen pregnant, she turns her out with only the clothes on her back. If it weren't for loyal Debbie, who follows her friend into exile, Lizzie would be friendless as well as destitute.
The girls are blessed when they meet big-hearted Sadie Trent, who takes them in and cherishes them like her own. But even Sadie cannot protect the girls from the vicious malice of Abe Turley, who is determined to take his pleasure - and then his revenge; and from sinister Fleur Masson, who hides an evil trade behind the respectable facade of a fashion house. After such tribulations, can there ever be true happiness for a child of sin?
Meg Hutchinson lived for sixty years in Wednesbury, where her parents and grandparents spent all their lives. Her passion for storytelling reaped dividends, with her novels regularly appearing in bestseller lists. She was the undisputed queen of the clogs and shawls saga. Passionate about history, her meticulous research provided an authentic context to the action-packed narratives set in the Black Country. She died in February 2010.
