A Brighter Tomorrow
An engrossing Victorian family saga
$28.96
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
11 April 2022
Summary
When their mother dies of pneumonia, Ellie and her younger sister Dora are left alone in the world. Their hard-drinking, womanising father has abandoned them, and they cannot afford the rent on their East End tenement alone. Ellie is proud but she cannot turn down an offer of help from Doctor Lowe, a kindly man who sees Ellie as the replacement for his own recently deceased daughter.
Though Doctor Lowe’s motives are misguided, his kindness offers Ellie and Dora an opportunity to escap…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781800327931 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1800327935 |
| Author: | Maggie Ford |
| Publisher: | Canelo |
| Imprint: | Canelo |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 11 April 2022 |
| Weight: | 272g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 19mm |
About The Author
Maggie Ford
Maggie Ford was born in the East End of London but at the age of six she moved to Essex, where she lived for the rest of her life. After the death of her first husband, when she was only 26, she went to work as a legal secretary until she remarried in 1968. She had a son and two daughters, all married; her second husband died in 1984. She wrote short stories from the early 1970s, also writing under the name Elizabeth Lord, and continued to publish books up to her death at the age of 92 in 2020.
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