The Surplus Girls' Orphans (eBook)

An enthralling saga of love and bravery, perfect for fans of Lyn Andrews and Lily Baxter

Polly Heron (Autor)

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2021 | 1. Auflage
432 Seiten
Corvus (Verlag)
978-1-78649-970-7 (ISBN)

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After the devastation of war, a child's love heals everything. Manchester, 1922: Molly Watson has had enough. Engaged for the last three years to a penny-pinching pedant, she finally decides she'd rather be a surplus girl than marry a man she doesn't truly love. Aware of the need to support herself if she is to remain single all her life, she joins a secretarial class to learn new skills, and a whole world opens up to her. When she gets a job at St Anthony's Orphanage, she befriends caretaker Aaron Abrams. But a misunderstanding leaves them at loggerheads, and damages her in the eyes of the children she has come to care so deeply about. Can she recover her reputation, her livelihood, and her budding friendship, before it's too late? The second in a quartet of sagas set during the early 1920s, following three Surplus Girls - those women whose dreams of marriage perished in the Great War, after the deaths of millions of young men, and the new lives they forged for themselves.

Polly Heron has worked as a librarian specialising in work with schools and children, an infant teacher, a carer and a cook. She lives in Llandudno in North Wales with her husband and two rescue cats, but her writing is inspired by her Mancunian roots. She enjoys reading, gardening, needlework and cooking and she loves living by the sea.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.1.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Surplus Girls
• Reihe/Serie: Surplus Girls
• Reihe/Serie: Surplus Girls
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: air-raids • Annie Groves • Coming of Age • deborah burrows • dilly court • Donna Douglas • elaine everest • Ellie Dean • Evacuation • Factory • factory girls • Family • family and relationships • Family Saga • Germany • heart warming • jenny holmes • Manchester • mary gibson • Nadine Dorries • North • Northern England • penny halsall • rationing • Romance • Rosie Goodwin • rosie hendry • ruby reynolds • Saga • strong female characters • war-time • war time books • Working Class • World War 1 • WW1
• ISBN-10: 1-78649-970-3 / 1786499703
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78649-970-7 / 9781786499707