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A vivid, heart-warming story of survival Annie Austin's childhood ends at the age of twelve, when she joins her mother in one of the slum laundries of Acton, working long hours for little pay. What spare time she has is spent looking after her younger brother George and her two stepsisters, under the glowering eye of her stepfather Bill. In London between the wars, a girl like Annie has few choices in life - but a powerful secret will change her destiny.
All Annie knows about her real father is that he died in the Great War, and as the years pass she is haunted by the pain of losing him. Her downtrodden mother won't tell her more and Annie's attempts to uncover the truth threaten to destroy her family. Distraught, she runs away to Covent Garden, but can she survive on her own and find the love which has eluded her so far?
From the grimy streets of Acton and Notting Hill to the bright lights of the West End,
All My Mother's Secrets is a powerful, uplifting story of a young woman's struggle to come to terms with her family's tragic past.
About the author
Beezy Marsh is an international #1 and
Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author who puts family and relationships at the heart of her writing. She is also an award-winning investigative journalist, who has spent more than twenty years making the headlines in newspapers including
Daily Mail, Sunday Times and
Sunday Telegraph. She believes that ordinary lives are often the most extraordinary and sisters, mothers and wives are the glue which binds everything together. Her fascination with what makes people tick began as a cub reporter in the North East, where she grew up after her family moved from London.
Her Father's Daughter tells of two families struggling to face up to the secrets which bind them through two world wars. From the bombed-out terraces of London to the grimy docks of Newcastle,
Her Father's Daughter is a poignant true story of the unbreakable bonds of family and the power of love to heal the worst wounds.
It follows her international top-ten best seller,
All My Mother's Secrets, set in the turbulent interwar years in London, which is the moving true story of a young girl's struggle to face up to her family's tragic past. She is the author of the
Sunday Times top ten and #1 international bestseller
Keeping My Sister's Secrets and of the biography,
Mad Frank and Sons, alongside two sons of gangland boss Frankie Fraser.
Beezy is married, with two young sons, and lives in Oxfordshire with a never-ending pile of laundry. She also writes a LIFE-LOVE-LAUNDRY blog on her website.
Summary
From top ten bestselling author of Keeping My Sisters' Secrets comes a moving, evocative true story about Beezy Marsh's grandmother and the family secrets that threaten her happiness.
Foreword
From top ten bestselling author of Keeping My Sisters' Secrets comes a moving, evocative true story about Beezy Marsh's grandmother and the family secrets that threaten her happiness.
Additional text
Absorbing . . . Marsh writes with a novelistic flair.
