The Four Streets / Nadine Dorries.

By: Dorries, Nadine, 1957-Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Head of Zeus, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: 313 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781781858240 (paperback)Subject(s): Domestic fiction | Irish -- England -- Liverpool -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction | Irish -- England -- Liverpool -- Social conditions -- Fiction | Catholics -- England -- Liverpool -- Fiction | Liverpool (England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction | Historical fiction. | Domestic fiction. DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: This is a heartbreaking family saga set in 1950s Liverpool. In the tight-knit Irish Catholic community of the Four Streets, two girls are growing up. One is motherless - and hated by the cold woman who is determined to take her dead mother's place. Will her adored father wake up to what is happening before it is too late? The other is hiding a dreadful secret which she dare not let slip to anyone, lest it rips the heart out of the community. And yet, how long can she possibly live with it? In the Four Streets there is almost nothing that a cup of tea and a good chat won't sort out. Laughing, grieving, hoping for better things - all this the people of the Four Streets can do together. But what can they do when a betrayal at the very heart of their world comes to light?
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This is a heartbreaking family saga set in 1950s Liverpool. In the tight-knit Irish Catholic community of the Four Streets, two girls are growing up. One is motherless - and hated by the cold woman who is determined to take her dead mother's place. Will her adored father wake up to what is happening before it is too late? The other is hiding a dreadful secret which she dare not let slip to anyone, lest it rips the heart out of the community. And yet, how long can she possibly live with it? In the Four Streets there is almost nothing that a cup of tea and a good chat won't sort out. Laughing, grieving, hoping for better things - all this the people of the Four Streets can do together. But what can they do when a betrayal at the very heart of their world comes to light?

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