Keeping my sisters' secrets /
by Marsh, Beezy.
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BookPublisher: London : Pan Books, 2017Description: 346 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781509842650 (pbk.) :; 1509842659 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 942.1085 MARSubject(s): Sisters -- England -- London -- Biography | London (England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century | Biography | BiographySummary: Eva, Peggy and Kathleen were sisters born into a close-knit working class family. As they grew up between the wars, they dreamed of escaping their violent father and the crime-ridden slums of Waterloo. Peggy was so appalled by conditions in the factories that she became a Communist. Beautiful Kathleen married an abusive man and later - during the Second World War - fell in love with a GI. Feisty Eva became a pickpocket as a child so she could help their mother put food on the table - and never lost her rebellious streak, or her desire to protect her family by whatever means necessary. As the years pass the sisters all lived close together, sharing each other's lives, supporting each other through hard times. 'Keeping My Sisters' Secrets' is a rich, moving story of three sisters fighting to survive through decades of social upheaval, their love for each other the one constant in a changing world.
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| 942.062 VEN The English Civil War / | 942.1 KEM A fish supper and a chippy smile : love, hardship and laughter in a South East London fish-and-chip shop / | 942.1085 BRO Billy Brown, I'll tell your mother | 942.1085 MAR Keeping my sisters' secrets / | 942.1085 MAR All my mother's secrets | 942.3086 BEE The simple life : how I found home / | 942.7 GRO Northerners : a history : from the Ice Age to the present day / |
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Eva, Peggy and Kathleen were sisters born into a close-knit working class family. As they grew up between the wars, they dreamed of escaping their violent father and the crime-ridden slums of Waterloo. Peggy was so appalled by conditions in the factories that she became a Communist. Beautiful Kathleen married an abusive man and later - during the Second World War - fell in love with a GI. Feisty Eva became a pickpocket as a child so she could help their mother put food on the table - and never lost her rebellious streak, or her desire to protect her family by whatever means necessary. As the years pass the sisters all lived close together, sharing each other's lives, supporting each other through hard times. 'Keeping My Sisters' Secrets' is a rich, moving story of three sisters fighting to survive through decades of social upheaval, their love for each other the one constant in a changing world.
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