Kingston Kate/Cockney Courage: AND Cockney Courage

by ElizabethWaite (Author)

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  2003

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  KINGSTON KATE - To catch a glimpse of her red hair, sparkling eyes and shapely figure was to think Kate Kearsley, the eighteen-year old daughter of a successful boatyard owner, a very lucky young woman indeed. But she was anything but lucky. Her brother had tragically drowned sixteen years previously and her father had turned to drink and violence, leading to the death of both her parents. What is to become of her?...COCKNEY COURAGE - At nineteen annie is orphaned and left in charge of two children abandoned by their mother. Undertaking to trace the children's real parents, Annie discovers much more than she has bargained for - and delving into her father's business produces even more surprises. The happiness of Annie and the children depends on learning to lean on one another and on their community in London's East End...

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  1999

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  Kate's father owns a boatyard and they have a comfortable, loving family life until her father gets drunk, something which is increasingly frequent - then he gets violent. Kate and her mother survive it together until the father attacks Kate one night when she is almost eighteen. Her mother stabs him in the back with a kitchen knife, kills him, is tried and hung for murder. Kate's loving grandmother and friends help her through her trauma. The only thing she doesn't have is a man - until she meets Bernard Pinfold (Toby). They walk out together and have a night of love just before he goes off on a two-year contract in South Africa. He doesn't write and Kate is saddened by his let down. However, she gets on with her life, converting her grandmother's house into a home for handicapped children, caring for a motherless child, Joshua, whom she comes to love and almost brings up as her own. Almost two years later she receives red roses and a letter from Toby wondering whether she is free, or found someone else. He is due to return and still loves her, but doesn't want to upset her if she's got another life. Of course, she forgives him...