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War babies

Murray, Annie2015
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Rachel Booker has a difficult start in life. When her father dies, deep in gambling debt, her mother must harden herself to make ends meet, but becomes so hard she has little room left for affection or warmth. Mother and daughter work at the open market in Birmingham, selling second-hand clothes or whatever they can find just to put a little food on the table. But the market has a silver lining: it's there that Rachel makes her first childhood friend, Danny. As they grow older, the friendship grows into something more and their innocent romance gives Rachel the care and comfort she's always craved. But at just 16, as World War II breaks out, Rachel falls pregnant. They marry in haste but it isn't long before Danny is called up. Left on the homefront with a new baby and little else, Rachel must scrape by with the other residents of Sparkbrook.
Main title:
War babies / Annie Murray.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Macmillan, 2015.London : Macmillan, 2015.
Collation:
462 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781447234012 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92SAGFICTIONF
Language:
English
BRN:
1700502
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