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Family of Women & Miss Purdy's Class by Annie Murray

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Family of Women A story of three generations of women: Bessie: scarred by a childhood of poverty in the slums of Victorian Birmingham and left a young widow with four children, is a hard, bullying woman who will go to disturbing lengths to keep her family under her thumb. Violet: one of Bessie's four children, marries young to escape, into the arms of a man whose life will be broken by war, Linda: grows up on a large housing estate in the 1950s with older sister Joyce and her beloved young sister Carol. Intelligent and energetic, she craves education and something more than the life she sees around her. Torn f rom her longed for place at the grammar school, she gives up hoping for anything better. It takes a tragic love affair to make her question the limitations of her life and the secrets which haunt her family. Miss Purdy's Class In the New Year of 1936, Gwen Purdy, aged 21, leaves her home to become a schoolteacher in a poor area of Birmingham. Her parents are horr

Books Second Time Around 2017

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Books Second Time Around has been around in Kuching for the past years.  The standard variables are : They will be in Hills Shopping Mall They will be here in November and December There are lots of books There are lots of titles Some books are super old  Some are relatively new - depends on your ability to locate All books are second hand They are very reasonably priced I love going there I am scared to go there as I know I will leave the place rich in books but poorer in wallet It's actually the only time I go to Hills Shopping Mall I went there last night I know I will go again...and again...and again... They have a whole section this year just for Chicken Soup. I am in trouble.