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Zusatztext Wood is a born storyteller Informationen zum Autor Born the thirteenth child of fifteen to a middle-class mother and an East End barrow boy, Mary Wood's childhood was a mixture of love and poverty. Throughout her life, Mary has held various posts in office roles, working in the probation services and bringing up her four children and numerous grandchildren, step-grandchildren and great-grandchildren. An avid reader, she first put pen to paper in 1989 while nursing her mother through her final months, but didn't become successful until she began self-publishing her writing in 2011. Her novels include All I Have to Give, An Unbreakable Bond, In Their Mother's Footsteps and the Breckton novels. Klappentext Life for Elsie is difficult as she struggles to cope with her alcoholic mother. Caring for her siblings and working long hours at Swift's Jam factory in London's Bermondsey is exhausting. Thankfully her lifelong friendship with Dot helps to smooth over life's rough edges. When Elsie and Dot meet Millie Hawkesfield, the boss's daughter, they are nervous to be in her presence. Over time, they are surprised to feel so drawn to her, but should two Cockney girls be socializing in such circles? When disaster strikes, it binds the women in ways they could never have imagined. And long-held secrets are revealed that will change all their lives . . . 'Wood is a born storyteller' Lancashire Evening Post Vorwort A warm and uplifting saga about female friendship from the bestselling author of The Abandoned Daughter and The Brave Daughters . Zusammenfassung A warm and uplifting saga about female friendship from the bestselling author of The Abandoned Daughter and The Brave Daughters.
