The Sunday Times Bestseller and #1 international bestseller'A moving and bittersweet story' Sun Keeping My Sister’s Secrets by Beezy Marsh is the heartwarming true story of three sisters and their fearless fight to survive the hardships of poverty and war - by whatever means necessary.Born into a close-knit working class family in the slums of London’s Waterloo, Eva, Peggy and Kathleen are three remarkably different, but very loving sisters. Desperate to escape their violent father, they find different ways to survive. Beautiful Kathleen escapes into marriage with an abusive man, and during the horrors of the Second World War, falls in love again - this time with an American GI. Peggy, serious and studious, is appalled by conditions in the factories and becomes a communist, desperate to help her fellow workers. The rebellious sister, Eva, will do anything to protect her family - even if it means breaking the law to put dinner on the table.Living closely together, the sisters support each other through thick and thin - their story is a moving tale of unconditional love, the one constant in a changing world.
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The moving true story of three sisters born into poverty and their fight for survival
A story of strength, survival and sisterhood Eva, Peggy and Kathleen were sisters born into a close-knit working-class family, living in a tiny terraced house in a street so rough the police would only walk down it in pairs. As they grew up between the Wars, they dreamed of escaping their father’s anger and the struggle of daily life in Waterloo. Peggy was a studious and principled girl so appalled by conditions in the factories that she became a Communist. Beautiful Kathleen, with a voice like silk, had her heart broken too young and was destined to have her heart broken time and time again. Feisty Eva was a thief as a child so she could help their mother put food on the table - and never lost her rebellious streak. As the years passed, the sisters stayed together, sharing each other’s lives, supporting each other through hard times and protecting each other by whatever means necessary. Keeping My Sisters’ Secrets is the rich, moving story of their fight to survive through decades of social upheaval – their love for each other the one constant in a changing world.
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A moving and bittersweet story
The moving true story of three sisters born into poverty and their fight for survival

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781509842650
Publisert
2017-07-27
Utgiver
Vendor
Pan Books
Vekt
242 gr
Høyde
197 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
27 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
352

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Beezy Marsh is an award-winning journalist, who has spent more than twenty years making the headlines in newspapers including Daily Mail and The Sunday Times. This was never going to be enough for a girl from Hartlepool, whose primary school teacher told her to give up her dream of becoming a poet and concentrate on being a nurse instead. Thirty years later, give or take, she became an author.

Family and relationships are at the heart of her writing and she is a firm believer that sisters, mothers and wives are the glue which binds everything together. She writes romantic fiction, as well as memoir and biography, and somehow finds time to write a blog about her life as an imperfect mother to two young boys, in between tackling a never-ending pile of laundry and doing the school run. She is the author of Mad Frank and Family.