This is a new series from the well-loved storyteller. London, 1920s. Sixteen-year-old Maggie Bailey lives in terror of her father's drunken rages. In a moment of fury, as she tries to defend her mother from another vicious beating, Maggie throws boiling water at her father. Though her mother cannot forgive her sin, Maggie determines she will do everything she can to protect herself and her sickly little brother, and a job in a cafe proves the first step to a better life. But what happens when her past catches up with her?
- ISBN10 0727896075
- ISBN13 9780727896070
- Publish Date 30 June 2013 (first published 31 March 2010)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 2 June 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Severn House Large Print Books
- Edition First World Large Print ed
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 384
- Language English