Better Days: A warm-hearted and nostalgic 1920s saga

by JuneTate (Author)

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  Paperback
  2002

  $3.39

  Gemma Barrett has a good job in a Southampton department store and a blossoming romance with the enigmatic Nick Weston, a first officer with Cunard. Life would be good if it wasn't for her mother, Eve, who likes more to drink than is good for her. And when Gemma's dad walks out and Eve starts bringing strange men home, Gemma doesn't know where to turn. Desperate to escape, she seizes the opportunity to be a stewardess on the Queen Mary, voyaging to and from New York. But a chance encounter with Vince Morelli, a gang boss in the New York docks, looks set to jeopardise her newfound happiness.

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  Hardcover
  2001

  $3.25

  Twenty-year-old Jenny Barrett is a bright and popular young woman with a great sense of humour, despite the problems caused by her unhappy alcoholic mother, who has started to bring home men to make money for booze. Working at a Southampton hotel, Jenny meets up with her old sweetheart Nick, and when she gets a job on the Queen Mary, Nick turns up there too. On board her head is turned by Tony Morrelli, the American boss of a gang of longshoremen, who flirts with her outrageously. What Jenny doesn't know is that Tony is mafia, and that her liaison with him could put her in real danger. Jenny has to find the strength to break the destructive ties with her mother and Tony before she can see where her true happiness lies.