Author: Lindsey Hutchinson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1788541502
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 294
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Tears and tribulations, laughs and heartbreak, from the queen of Black Country sagas. Adam and Polly Fitch face a bleak future after being sold for just five shillings to Miss Reed's orphanage by their bullying father. Missing their mother Minnie, and their three brothers still at home, they know they must stick together to survive. But the orphanage does have one advantage – a merry band of children who soon form their own kind of family – and they're all determined to escape the clutches of the wicked Miss Reed. Adam decides to survive he'll need to fight, so he sneaks out to have boxing lessons with the famous pugilist Billy Marshall. Lessons he needs sooner than he expects when his beloved sister Polly is sold to the rich Bellamy family, and Adam decides to go to her rescue. Can Adam, Polly and their band of friends survive life with only each other to rely on, and will they ever have the happily ever after they so long for...
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Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Author: Lizzie Page
Publisher: Forever
ISBN: 9781538766088
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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A gritty, heartbreaking story of love and hope in the darkest of times, perfect for readers of Erika Robuck and Shirley Dickson. Shilling Grange Orphanage, England, 1948: Clara Newton is the new housemother of Shilling Grange Orphanage. Many of the children have been bombed out of their homes and left without families, their lives torn apart by the war, just like Clara's. Devastated by the loss of her fiancé, a brave American pilot, Clara needs a place to start again and the orphans are in desperate need of her help. But funds are short, children cry out in the night, and the tearful girls tells Clara terrible stories about the nuns who previously ran Shilling Grange. Clara cannot bear to see them suffer, yet it soon becomes clear that she's in over her head. But Clara is not completely alone. Living next door is Ivor: war hero and handyman with deep brown eyes. Having grown up at the orphanage, he's also hesitant to trust anyone. Yet his gentle voice and bottomless patience helps him soothe the orphans better than anyone. With his help, the orphans--and Clara--have someone to give them hope. But does she dare she open her heart to love again?
Author: Arthur Mee
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Category : Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 652
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Author: Susan Pedersen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521558341
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 500
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A comparative analysis of social policies in Britain and France between 1914 and 1945.
Author: Oliver Angell
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Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Author: A. L. O. E.
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Languages : en
Pages : 242
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Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Author: Andrea Hetherington
Publisher: Casemate Publishers
ISBN: 1473886791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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Widows of the Great War is the first major account of the experience of women who had to cope with the death of their husbands during the conflict and then rebuild their lives. It explores each stage of their bereavement, from the shock of receiving the news that their husband had been killed, through grief and mourning to the practical issues of compensation and a widow's pension. The way in which the state and society treated the widows during this process is a vital theme running through the book as it reveals in vivid detail how the bureaucracy of war helped and hindered them as they sought to come to terms with their loss. Andrea Hetherington also describes often overlooked aspects of bereavement, and she features many telling first-hand accounts from the widows themselves which show how they saw their situation and how they reacted to it. Her study gives us a fascinating insight into the way in which the armed services and the government regarded war widows during the early years of the twentieth century.
