After losing her family in the Great War, Nell is grateful to marry Stan Hibbert, believing she can recapture a sense of family with him. But five years on, she is just another back-street housewife, making every penny do the work of tuppence and performing miracles with scrag-end. When she discovers that Stan is leading a double-life, she runs away to make a fresh start.
Two years later, in 1924, Nell has carved out a fulfilling new life for herself and her young children in Manchester, where her neighbours believe she is a respectable widow and a talented machinist. But the past is hard to run from, and Nell must fight to protect the life she has made for herself and her children.
- ISBN10 0749021292
- ISBN13 9780749021290
- Publish Date 21 June 2018
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 28 September 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Allison & Busby
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 448
- Language English