Somewhere Behind the Morning - Couverture souple

McNeil, Frances

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0752868519 ISBN 13 : 9780752868516

Editeur : Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2005

Synopsis

This beguiling first novel is written in the form of a journal telling of a teenage girl's struggle to hold her family together. In working-class Leeds of 1914, sisters Julia and Margaret Wood are striving to rise above devastating poverty. War seems inevitable and angry feelings about foreigners have reached boiling point; their German-Jewish father's search for work proves to be hopeless. It is self-educated, entrepreneurial Julia who keeps the family afloat by hawking homemade pies on the streets of Leeds. Her beautiful elder sister, Margaret, an apprentice milliner and new member of the suffragette set, seeks a faster way out of destitution, pinning her hopes to a rich suffragette, Mrs Turner, and her journalist son, Thomas. But as the Great War rages, Julia discovers for herself the meaning of courage, and looks forward to that new day, that fresh, magical start, somewhere behind the morning.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Frances McNeil was born and brought up in Leeds. She worked as a shorthand typist in New York and London, and read English and History at York University. She returned to Leeds where she now works as a lecturer, and has also written for radio, theatre and television.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0752868519
• ISBN 13: 9780752868516
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible