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(0)Anne Bennett
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Kate is only 16 when she is sent to live in Birmingham with her friend Susie. Kate is harbouring a secret - a deep passion for her cousin, Tim, back home in Ireland. When WWII breaks out, the girls volunteer as Air Raid Protection Volunteers. But while war wages all around them, Kate makes a discovery that rocks her to her very core.
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Linda is 12 years old when a bomb explosion kills her family and leaves her beneath debris. Jenny crawls through a tunnel to save her. They form a friendship that lasts them through the years. But Linda falls in love with a man that Jenny cannot but hate. Originally published: London: Headline, 1999
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McCluskey Saga volume 2
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2018
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Angela McClusky is haunted by the young baby that she left on the steps of the workhouse. Born out of wedlock and the result of a traumatic assault, the child has grown up away from the loving arms of her mother and only has a locket to remind her of the family she never knew.Angela, meanwhile, has carried the guilt of her actions with her for almost a decade, now widowed and alone, she is courted by a new suitor, Eddie, who seems to offer her the...
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Harper
Pub. Date
2017
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Angela McCluskey comes to Birmingham from Ireland with her family as a young girl to escape poverty at the turn of the 20th Century, but bad fortune dogs the family as the years pass. Angela marries her childhood sweetheart but tragedy is heaped upon misery when he is called up in the Great War and dies at the Somme. She gives birth to a young daughter called Constance who she must rear on her own, but the worst is yet to come when Angela is raped...
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Harper
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Janet is determined to make something of herself, instead of being chained to a sink with a baby a year like most women of her generation. She passes her eleven-plus and wins a scholarship to go to a good grammar school, but her father refuses to believe that girls have the right to do anything other than look after their husbands and raise children.Struggling to fit in at her new school and picked on by the other girls, Janet befriends, Ruth, another...
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Harper
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2015
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Celia Mulligan is in love with farm hand Andy McCadden, but when Andy asks her to marry him and she accepts, her father is furious - no daughter of his will marry a mere hireling. Celia elopes with Andy and they make their way by ship to England. While on board, Celia meets a demure young woman called Annabel who tells her in confidence that a friend of her father forced himself upon her and she has since fallen pregnant. Annabel plans to throw herself...