
The Silent War
A moving wartime saga of tragedy and hope
Victor Pemberton(Author)
Headline Book Publishing
Published on 8. May 1997
Book
Paperback/Softback
448 pages
978-0-7472-5322-8 (ISBN)
Description
Sunday Collins is less than happy with her lot in war-torn London, working in the sweaty, steamy laundry round the corner from her home in a stark Holloway council flat known as 'the buildings' where she has been brought up by May Collins, a Salvation Army Officer who found her on the Sally Army steps along with her bossy sister Louie. Sunday lives for Saturday nights, when she makes the most of her Betty Grable looks at the Athenaeum Dance Hall. But Sunday's recklessly lived life is changed dramatically when, one summer morning in 1944, the laundry receives a direct hit from one of Hitler's V-1s, and she finds she is - and it seems permanently - deaf...
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Headline Publishing Group
Product notice
Paperback (UK-A)
Dimensions
Height: 177 mm
Width: 111 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
239 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7472-5322-8 (9780747253228)
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E-Book
06/2012
Headline Book Publishing
€4.49
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Person
Victor Pemberton is a successful radio playwright and TV producer, and has worked with some of the great names of entertainment.