The Cobbler's Kids

by RosieHarris (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $3.29

  He was a tyrant. She was his daughter. Kept a virtual stranger by her bullying father, fourteen-year-old Vera Quinn longs for a life of her own. Michael Quinn is admired and liked by his customers, but he rules his family with a rod of iron. After her mother's untimely death, Vera is expected to keep house for both Michael and her brothers Eddy and young Benny. And so begins a life of great hardship and little joy - Michael drinks away anything he earns and even the small wages Vera and Eddy bring in are barely enough to keep the family going. But then one day Michael brings Di Deverill home and life becomes an even greater hell for Vera. Will she ever be saved from a life of drudgery?

• Used

  Hardcover
  2005

  $3.29

  The gripping new saga set in Liverpool from William Heinemann and Arrow's rising star After he is demobbed in 1919, handsome Michael Quinn, the cobbler, is a changed man. He moves his family from their comfortable home in Wallasey to live over a shop in Liverpool's notorious Scotland Road. He rules his family with a rod of iron and when his browbeaten wife dies, his daughter Vera has to keep house for him and his other two sons as well as bring up Benny, who is only a baby. Admired and liked by his customers he is a tyrant at home, often resorting to violence to get his own way. And when he brings Di Deverill home life becomes an even greater hell for poor Vera - until Jack Winter comes along...Will Vera at last be saved from a life of drudgery and few rewards?