Annie Of Albert Mews

ISBN: 0747241139
Author: Dee Williams
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Even if she feels life is passing her by as she serves ebhind the counter in her father's Rotherhite grocer's shop, Annie Rogers knows she is lucky to have a secure home and a loving family - unlike her friend Lil. For though Lil seems to enjoy endless hours of gossip at the factory where she works, her father is a violent drunk and her family forced to live in a squalid tenement. Knowing how hard Lil's life is, Annie willingly helps her out, lending her dresses and make-up and, when Annie is asked out on a smart date by the landlord's son Peter Barrett, suggesting Lil comes along to make up a foursome. But it is a shcok when Lil gets on famously with Peter's swanky friend Julian whilst Annie feels much less sure of the smooth Peter. Soon Lil is busy earning money form pub singing spots set up for her by Julian, and Annie, no longer needed by her freind, feels more isolated than ever. It is then that she notices shy Will Hobbs from Fisher's engineering works. Before long Annie and Will are engaged, with plans tfor a home of their own in Surrey. But a dreadful accident at Fisher's and the looking shadow of World War II means that life for Annie at Alber Mews is not so predicatable - or secure - as she one though it was...

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Wishes And Tearsexcellent read, family saga
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