Wheeling and Dealing

by ElizabethWaite (Author)

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  Paperback
  2006

  $4.48

  Ella has lived in the East End of London all her life and when her husband is determined to move to Epsom to be near the racecourse he frequents and loves, Ella's refusal to move with him breaks up their marriage. It's been a tempestuous marriage - sometimes they had money, often not and when he was doing well, he liked the ladies...Once the marriage breaks up, Ella loses the will to keep smart, trim and fit. Until her mother steps in, determined to pick up the pieces. And it works - Ella gets a job as barmaid in the British Legion club which gives her an income and a social life. She begins to take pride in her appearance again and, when Dennis turns up for a drink one night, he is taken by surprise - and remembers what attracted him to her in the first place. But can Dennis win back his wife? Ella has to decide if Dennis has changed - or indeed can change - his wheeler-dealer ways...

• Used

  Paperback
  2009

  $3.25

  Wheeling and Dealing: Ella Dryden has always lived in the East End - it's where she belongs. So when her husband Dennis announces he wants to move away, Ella just can't bring herself to go with him. Especially when she learns of his betrayal. But staying in the East End is going to force Ella into making some changes. Soon, with a bar job, a slimmer figure and a new sense of independence, Ella proves that she can be happy - by herself. Not to mention attractive to the opposite sex ...Life's for Living: Like most people in the impoverished East End of the 1920s, Joan has her crosses to bear - and her biggest one by far is her husband. A good for nothing drinker and gambler, he perishes one day in a fire of his own drunken making. Joan's new-found freedom leads her to Eric Roussel, a successful, charismatic businessman. It looks like she's found the happy ending she deserves - until she learns that Eric is hiding his own secrets ...