Baker, Anne,

A lucky sixpence / Anne Baker. - 438 pages ; 25 cm.

It's 1937 and for sisters Lizzie and Milly Travis there's nothing quite like the thrill of the funfair at New Brighton. Amid the bright lights and whirling rides, Lizzie wins a lucky sixpence on a stall - as well as the heart of a handsome stallholder. Ben McCluskey isn't the type of man Lizzie's respectable parents had in mind for her, nevertheless the young couple embark on a whirlwind romance. Lizzie's mother worries that history will repeat itself when Ben introduces her daughter to a world she never knew existed. And, as war looms, Milly realises that her sister's luck can't last for ever...

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Sisters--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.


Merseyside (England)--Social conditions--20th century--Fiction.


Romance fiction.

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