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Cockney Diamond
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Patsy is now living a comfortable life - Eddie's little chain of hotels is thriving, but two of her four children have problems in their marriages - can Patsy help them out? Ellen's husband is physically abusing her. She finally leaves him, spends some time in a mental hospital, then slowly recovers at home and eventually meets Peter - a much more ...
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Life's for Living
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When good-for-nothing Bill dies in a fire of his own drunken making, it is a bit of relief for wife Joan. Behind on the rent, scraping a few pennies together for food, at least now she is free from his physical abuse. With the support of sister Martha, Joan finds a housekeeping job in Kent which puts her on her feet. The household is a friendly ...
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A London lass
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When Janey has to leave her home after her stepfather beats her, she finds herself in a children's home deep in the Sussex countryside. Leaving at 16, she takes a job as a maid in Balham and is lonely and miserable until she meets a blind woman and falls in love with her married son.
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Safe Return Home
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A heart-warming family saga - Emma Pearson offered a rural holiday to orphaned John and Tommy in the 1930s, and they become as close as family. Over the years the family stayed in touch, but when World War Two breaks out tragedy strikes when John is killed at Dunkirk. The lives of Tom and the Pearson family seem set to become more and more trying ...
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Wheeling and Dealing
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Ella Dryden has always lived in London's East End. It's 1952, and her husband Dennis wants to take her and their two children to live in Epsom in Surrey. But the move will leave her at the mercy of Dennis's erratic behavior, his beatings and his shady financial dealings. Ella decides not to go with him, and learning that Dennis has got another ...
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Never Say Never
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A heartwarming family saga - 1930: the sleepy Hampshire village where Emma Pearson lives with her family is offering rural holidays to orphaned children from London. John and Tommy, the two lads who stay with the Pearsons, become part of the family. Years later, when World War II breaks out, Emma must watch not only her own two girls, but also the ...
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Skinny Lizzie.
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South London, 1932. Times are hard for ten-year old Lizzie Collins and her family. With her father dead, it is up to her mother, grandmother and aunt to scrimp and save to rear Lizzie and her three siblings. But the whole family is blessed with the indomitable Cockney spirit- and in particular the physically frail but strong-willed and intelligent ...
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Life's for Living
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When good-for-nothing Bill dies in a fire of his own drunken making, it is a bit of relief for wife Joan. Behind on the rent, scraping a few pennies together for food, at least now she is free from his physical abuse. With the support of sister Martha, Joan finds a housekeeping job in Kent which puts her on her feet. The household is a friendly ...
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The Road to Bethlehem Tpb: a Nativity Story From Ethiopia
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Time will tell
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During an air-raid, Joan gives birth to a son just as a bomb hits the hospital. The electricity is cut and panic ensues. In the aftermath of confusion, her son is mis-tagged with another baby boy, a fact that only comes to light 20 years later.
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Kingston Kate
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Kate's mother kills her abusive father and is tried and hanged for murder. Friends help Kate through and she meets Toby with whom she has just one night before he leaves for South Africa. Kate gets on with her life, until two years later when she receives a letter from Toby asking if she is free.
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Nippy
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Set in London in the depressed years immediately following World War I, NIPPY is the story of two best friends, Becky and Eleanor. Becky has a loving family but Ella's father died in the war leaving his family in poverty. Ella is tough and able to take life in the laundry where the two girls begin work aged 14, but Becky soon realises it's not the ...
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Cockney waif
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Patsy Kent is just fourteen when her beloved mother Ellen dies of consumption in November 1918. The pregant but unmarries Ellen had fled her respectable family and landed up in Tooting, desperate to find somewhere to live and a place to work. Thus she found Florrie Holmes' place in Strathmore Street. Patsy, born there, has grown up surrounded by ...
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Third Time Lucky
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A story which begins in Tooting in 1951. Evie Smith has two daughters by a married lover, who leaves her when she becomes pregnant again. Five years later Evie gets together with a mysterious man, but a fire robs her of him. Then an encounter with a police officer provides a chance of happiness.
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Trouble & Strife
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Tooting, 1950: Ruby has always been a worry to her widowed mother Ida - her husband, Brian is violent and she loses her job after allegations of "carrying on" with the manager. When Brian dies suddenly, Ida is quietly relieved, but tragedy continues to stalk Ruby until she feels she must go away.
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Cockney courage
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Bermondsey 1945. When Annie's father is killed she won't let the two children he took in with their mother (now vanished) be taken into care. Raising them herself whilst searching for their parents, she finds they have different fathers and again they face separation unless she can find a solution.
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Second chance
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Barbara's first chance comes in 1945. A barrister's daughter, she runs away to marry her sailor sweetheart in secret, ignoring her parent's disapproval. When the marriage falls violently apart, she returns home and tries to rebuild her life. Then a second chance of happiness comes her way.
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Elizabeth Waite omnibus.
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This omnibus edition contains "Second Chance" and "Skinny Lizzie". In the first novel, a new wife discovers her husband's violence and must break free of his hold over her. In the second, Londoner Lizzie marries after the war, only to find her husband wants to move away from her beloved home town.
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Cockney Diamond
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Patsy is now living a comfortable life - Eddie's little chain of hotels is thriving, but two of her four children have problems in their marriages - can Patsy help them out? Ellen's husband is physically abusing her. She finally leaves him, spends some time in a mental hospital, then slowly recovers at home and eventually meets Peter - a much more ...
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Cockney Diamond
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Cockney family
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Set in wartime London, this is a sequel to "Cockney Waif". Patsy now has a husband and four children, and as the fateful events of September 1939 unfold, London will be shaken by air raids and food shortages, children will be evacuated, and men called up. Patsy wonders if her family can survive.
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Life's for living
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Interplay '85 Ist International Festival of Young Playwrights
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Daniel Lapaine, Glenn Lumsden, David Maher, Robyn Waite, Rob Howatson, Elizabeth Fow, Charles McGuiness, Emily Fuller,...
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Cockney Diamond
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