Author: Annie Murray
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330527002
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Continuing the saga begun in Annie Murray’s Chocolate Girls, and set in 1960s Birmingham, The Bells of Bournville Green is a story of families whose lives are entwined, of belonging and loss . . . and of a young woman’s search for transforming love. Pretty seventeen-year-old Greta has never known a stable family life. With no father, and loathing her mother Ruby’s latest boyfriend, Greta finds life hard at home and is happiest at work with her friends at the Cadbury factory in Birmingham, where she is popular with the boys. Life takes a turn for the worse when her missing vixen of a sister Marleen turns up during the freezing winter of 1962. Greta soon decides that her only way out is marriage, but all too soon she discovers that life with her old classmate Trevor is not a ticket to freedom and happiness. She finds herself on the streets, pregnant and homeless . . . She is taken in by her mother’s old friends, Edie and Anatoli Gruschov. In Anatoli, Greta finds the father she has never had. Kindly Edie loves to mother people and is desperately missing her son David and his family, who have settled in Israel. But the love and security of this haven is soon shattered by appalling tragedy, which affects all the chocolate girls and their children and changes life forever . . . The next novel in Annie Murray's gritty family saga is Secrets of the Chocolate Girls
The Bells of Bournville Green
Author: Annie Murray
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330527002
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Continuing the saga begun in Annie Murray’s Chocolate Girls, and set in 1960s Birmingham, The Bells of Bournville Green is a story of families whose lives are entwined, of belonging and loss . . . and of a young woman’s search for transforming love. Pretty seventeen-year-old Greta has never known a stable family life. With no father, and loathing her mother Ruby’s latest boyfriend, Greta finds life hard at home and is happiest at work with her friends at the Cadbury factory in Birmingham, where she is popular with the boys. Life takes a turn for the worse when her missing vixen of a sister Marleen turns up during the freezing winter of 1962. Greta soon decides that her only way out is marriage, but all too soon she discovers that life with her old classmate Trevor is not a ticket to freedom and happiness. She finds herself on the streets, pregnant and homeless . . . She is taken in by her mother’s old friends, Edie and Anatoli Gruschov. In Anatoli, Greta finds the father she has never had. Kindly Edie loves to mother people and is desperately missing her son David and his family, who have settled in Israel. But the love and security of this haven is soon shattered by appalling tragedy, which affects all the chocolate girls and their children and changes life forever . . . The next novel in Annie Murray's gritty family saga is Secrets of the Chocolate Girls
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0330527002
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Continuing the saga begun in Annie Murray’s Chocolate Girls, and set in 1960s Birmingham, The Bells of Bournville Green is a story of families whose lives are entwined, of belonging and loss . . . and of a young woman’s search for transforming love. Pretty seventeen-year-old Greta has never known a stable family life. With no father, and loathing her mother Ruby’s latest boyfriend, Greta finds life hard at home and is happiest at work with her friends at the Cadbury factory in Birmingham, where she is popular with the boys. Life takes a turn for the worse when her missing vixen of a sister Marleen turns up during the freezing winter of 1962. Greta soon decides that her only way out is marriage, but all too soon she discovers that life with her old classmate Trevor is not a ticket to freedom and happiness. She finds herself on the streets, pregnant and homeless . . . She is taken in by her mother’s old friends, Edie and Anatoli Gruschov. In Anatoli, Greta finds the father she has never had. Kindly Edie loves to mother people and is desperately missing her son David and his family, who have settled in Israel. But the love and security of this haven is soon shattered by appalling tragedy, which affects all the chocolate girls and their children and changes life forever . . . The next novel in Annie Murray's gritty family saga is Secrets of the Chocolate Girls
The Bournville Village Trust
Author: John H. Barlow
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bournville (Birmingham, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bournville (Birmingham, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Bournville Works and Its Institutions
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business and education
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business and education
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Bournville Housing
Author: Bournville Works (Bournville, England). Publication Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Housing
Languages : en
Pages : 62
Book Description
The Model Village and Its Cottages: Bournville
Author: William Alexander Harvey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Garden Cities and Town Planning
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Garden Cities and Town Planning Magazine
Author: George J. H. Northcroft
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 750
Book Description
The Architectural Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
The Sphere
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Fire
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire extinction
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire extinction
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description