A Strong Hand to Hold
(, New edition)
Publishing Details
A Strong Hand to Hold
By (Author) Anne Bennett
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
12th May 2000
New edition
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
823.914
Physical Properties
384
Width 111mm, Height 28mm, Spine 175mm
231g
Description
When ARP warden Jenny O Leary opens a telegram one morning in 1940, grief threatens to engulf her. Her brother has been tragically killed in action. And it s the very same day that she is to save a girl whose loss is far greater than her own...Linda Prosser is just twelve years old when a bomb explosion instantly kills her family and leaves her crushed beneath a mass of debris. It s Jenny who rescues a girl who has nothing left in the world and who offers not just a strong hand to hold in the dark, but a home and friendship that is to last through the years. But then Linda falls in love with a man that Jenny cannot but hate. Has her debt to Jenny been repaid Must she sacrifice her future happiness for her friend
Author Bio
Anne Bennett was born and brought up in Birmingham. She taught as a school teacher there but has recently moved to Wales with her husband and two youngest children.
