Ironmonger's Daughter: An engrossing saga of family feuds, true love and war

Ironmonger's Daughter: An engrossing saga of family feuds, true love and war

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Author: Harry Bowling

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 576


Ironmonger Street in 1920, with its ugly tenement blocks and tumbledown houses, is one of the most unsightly turnings in Bermondsey; its residents are hardened to the grim poverty of their lives. In the slum block, Jubilee Dwellings, two sisters attractive, fun-loving Kate Morgan and the happily married Helen Bartlett give birth to daughters. One is illegitimate, her mother refusing to name the father, the other is disabled. Though their mothers can never be close, Connie and Molly grow up together. Life may be hard, but with all their Cockney humour and courage they enjoy it, too, and wouldn't be parted for the world. Until the day Connie and catches the eye of handsome Robert Armitage. Despite the differences in their backgrounds, and the antagonism that dogs their two families, they are drawn together and are determined to be married. Until war intervenes...



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Author: Harry Bowling

Format: Paperback

Number of Pages: 576


Ironmonger Street in 1920, with its ugly tenement blocks and tumbledown houses, is one of the most unsightly turnings in Bermondsey; its residents are hardened to the grim poverty of their lives. In the slum block, Jubilee Dwellings, two sisters attractive, fun-loving Kate Morgan and the happily married Helen Bartlett give birth to daughters. One is illegitimate, her mother refusing to name the father, the other is disabled. Though their mothers can never be close, Connie and Molly grow up together. Life may be hard, but with all their Cockney humour and courage they enjoy it, too, and wouldn't be parted for the world. Until the day Connie and catches the eye of handsome Robert Armitage. Despite the differences in their backgrounds, and the antagonism that dogs their two families, they are drawn together and are determined to be married. Until war intervenes...