A Child at the Door

<p>When probationer nurse Mabel Court enters the Booth Street Poor Law Infirmary, her future looks bright: this is the opportunity that Mabel, the orphaned child of a marriage which went tragically wrong, has always dreamt of. But it is August 1914, and her world is about to be turned upside down. She soon meets Norah McLoughlin, another probationer, and the two girls - together with Mabel's childhood friend Maudie, now a music-hall dancer - become firm friends. </p>
<p> As war rages across Europe, they try to keep their spirits up but when Mabel's fiance Harry Drover is wounded at the battle of the Somme, and returns home shell-shocked, Mabel realises that the life she and Harry had always hoped for is now an impossibility. Then when Maudie falls pregnant by an officer, and Norah's young man is lost at sea, all three girls are forced to face the fact that life will never be the same again...</p> (2001-12-27)

A Child At The Door

Literature & Fiction

Maggie Bennett

Genre Fiction

Arrow

A Childs Voice Calling

Arrow Books

1st edition 1st printing paperback, fine In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

A Child's Voice Calling

Contemporary

Arrow Books, Ltd.

The Saga Collection (For Love of Lily/The Cobbler's Kids/Wait For the Dawn)

Rosie Harris

JESS FOLEY

An bittersweet historical novel from this bestselling saga writer The unexpected friendship between Tabitha Prewett, the only daughter of a tailor, and Mariette de St Aubyn, daughter of aristocratic French ?migr?s, deepens as the years pass, rising above their differences in social class and religion. But when Mariette marries Conor Townclear, Tabitha's emotions are stirred. As angry rioters flood through London during violent anti-Catholic riots, leaving mayhem in their wake, the three of them are drawn together in life-threatening circumstances.

The Tailor's Daughter

British & Irish

Severn House

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