A Child's Voice Calling: a gritty, engrossing and ultimately uplifting London saga that you won’t be able to forget…

A Child's Voice Calling: a gritty, engrossing and ultimately uplifting London saga that you won’t be able to forget…

by Maggie Bennett (Author)

Synopsis

Young Mabel Court, child of her mother's hasty marriage to a spendthrift, becomes 'little mother' to her brothers and sisters growing up in south London at the start of the twentieth century. With poverty never far from the door, the battle to stay respectable is finally lost when the family breaks up in tragic circumstances, and Mabel is thrown upon the dubious mercy of her grandmother, the sinister Mimi Court, who has her own dark secrets. But faithful Harry Drover of the Salvation Army, in love with Mabel, gets an opportunity to prove his devotion when Mimi falls foul of the law and Mabel has to fight for her own survival...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 464
Edition: paperback / softback
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 05 Sep 2002

ISBN 10: 0099415747
ISBN 13: 9780099415749
Book Overview: A gritty, engrossing saga in the bestselling tradition of Meg Hutchinson 20020218

Author Bio
Maggie Bennett was born in Hampshire. When she left school at eighteen she started general nursing training and, after a year as a staff nurse, she went on to train as a midwife. Her career was interrupted by marriage at thirty-five, and she moved to Manchester where her two daughters were born; she later returned to work as a midwife until her retirement in 1991. Having been an avid reader and scribbler all her life, she took a correspondence course in creative writing after her husband's death in 1983, and started writing articles and short stories. A CHILD'S VOICE CALLING is her first novel.