The bells of Bournville Green
Murray, Annie2024
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Seventeen-year-old Greta has never known a stable family life. With no father, and loathing her mother Ruby's latest boyfriend, Greta finds life hard at home and is happiest at work with her friends at the Cadbury factory in Birmingham. Life takes a turn for the worse when her missing sister Marleen turns up during the freezing winter of 1962. Greta soon decides that her only way out is marriage, but all too soon she discovers that life with her old classmate Trevor is not a ticket to freedom and happiness. She finds herself on the streets, pregnant and homeless. She is taken in by her mother's old friends, Edie and Anatoli Gruschov. In Anatoli, Greta finds the father she has never had. Kindly Edie loves to mother people and is desperately missing her son David and his family, who have settled in Israel. But the love and security of this haven is soon shattered by appalling tragedy.
Main title:
The bells of Bournville Green / Annie Murray.
Author:
Murray, Annie, author
Imprint:
London : Pan Books, 2024.
Collation:
502 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: London: Macmillan, 2008.Originally published: 2008.
ISBN:
9781529088205 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92SAFF
LC class:
PR6113.U7
Local class:
FT Pbk
Language:
English
BRN:
3163745