The Cobbler's Kids
1st Edition
Published on 3. April 2014
368 pages
978-1-4464-4003-2 (ISBN)
Description
She must risk it all to keep them safe...
Liverpool 1920s: Michael Quinn the cobbler returns home after the First World War forever changed by his experiences on the front line.
He moves his family from their comfortable home to live over a shop in Liverpool's notorious Scotland Road. Though admired and liked by his customers, behind closed doors he rules his family with a fist of steel.
Fourteen-year-old Vera Quinn longs for a life of her own. But when their mother dies, she must keep house for her father Michael and her brothers, Eddy and young Benny. So begins a life of hardship, until an unexpected series of events leads Vera to discover she is far stronger than she could have ever known...
Liverpool 1920s: Michael Quinn the cobbler returns home after the First World War forever changed by his experiences on the front line.
He moves his family from their comfortable home to live over a shop in Liverpool's notorious Scotland Road. Though admired and liked by his customers, behind closed doors he rules his family with a fist of steel.
Fourteen-year-old Vera Quinn longs for a life of her own. But when their mother dies, she must keep house for her father Michael and her brothers, Eddy and young Benny. So begins a life of hardship, until an unexpected series of events leads Vera to discover she is far stronger than she could have ever known...
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Cornerstone
File size
0,49 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4464-4003-2 (9781446440032)
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Rosie Harris
The Cobbler's Kids
Book
12/2005
Arrow Books Ltd
€36.11
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Person
Rosie Harris was born in Cardiff and grew up there and in the West Country. After her marriage she lived for some years on Merseyside before moving to Buckinghamshire where she still lives. She has three grown-up children and six grandchildren and writes full time.
