Christmas is for children / Rosie Clarke.

By: Clarke, Rosie [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Aria, an imprint of Head of Zeus, 2019Description: 407 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781788549936; 1788549937Subject(s): 1900-1999 | Man-woman relationships -- Fiction | Widowers -- Fiction | Superheroes -- Comic books, strips, etc | Single fathers -- Fiction | Single mothers -- Fiction | Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction | Working class -- England -- Fiction | Working class | Superheroes | Social conditions | Single mothers | Single fathers | Depressions | East End (London, England) -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction | Great Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- Fiction | Great Britain | England -- London -- East End | EnglandGenre/Form: Christmas stories. | Christmas fiction. | Historical fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Romance fiction. | Comic books, strips, etc. | Christmas fiction. | Christmas stories | Romance fiction. | History. | Historical fiction. | Fiction. | Domestic fiction. DDC classification: 823.92 Summary: "December 1930. Christmas should be for the children, but with the Depression biting deeper, money and food in short supply and factories, ship yards and businesses closing down, the outlook is pretty bleak. It looks like many East End kids will wake up on Christmas morning to nothing. Robbie Graham is out of luck and work. Can he earn enough to put food on his table for his motherless children, Ben and Ruthie? Never mind something for their Christmas stockings? Meanwhile single mother and local shop owner, Flo Hawkins cannot bear the thought of some children having nothing for Christmas. Alongside her daughter, Honour, they decide to make their own gifts and the community unites to throw a Christmas party at the Salvation Army for those less fortunate. But will it be Flo who gets the best gift ever?"--Provided by publisher.
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"December 1930. Christmas should be for the children, but with the Depression biting deeper, money and food in short supply and factories, ship yards and businesses closing down, the outlook is pretty bleak. It looks like many East End kids will wake up on Christmas morning to nothing. Robbie Graham is out of luck and work. Can he earn enough to put food on his table for his motherless children, Ben and Ruthie? Never mind something for their Christmas stockings? Meanwhile single mother and local shop owner, Flo Hawkins cannot bear the thought of some children having nothing for Christmas. Alongside her daughter, Honour, they decide to make their own gifts and the community unites to throw a Christmas party at the Salvation Army for those less fortunate. But will it be Flo who gets the best gift ever?"--Provided by publisher.

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