Autumn Alley - Enter a world of gas lights horse drawn buses, gin soaked night

Zusatztext Lena Kennedy is the genuine article Informationen zum Autor Lena Kennedy lived all her life in the East End of London and wrote with great energy about the people and times she knew there. She was 67 before her first novel, MAGGIE, was accepted for publication. Since then her bestselling novels have shown her to be among the finest and best loved of contemporary novelists. She died in August 1986 Klappentext Gas lights and horse drawn buses, gin-soaked night clubs and fluttering lace curtains: enter the world of Autumn Alley. Here you'll find Maud, the formidable Irish-American suffragette; sulky Patricia, whose unhappy childhood leads her to a dangerous love affair; vivacious, flame-haired Colleen; Mary, who struggles to bring up children beside her wayward husband - and Arfer, whose quick mind lifts him out of the world of poverty in London's East End. Zusammenfassung Gas lights and horse drawn buses, gin-soaked night clubs and fluttering lace curtains: the world of AUTUMN ALLEY.

Product details

• Authors: Lena Kennedy
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.07.2013
• EAN: 9781444767216
• ISBN: 978-1-4447-6721-6
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 180 mm x 33 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Historical / General, FICTION / Sagas, Saga fiction (family / generational sagas)