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Blackpool's Angel
By (Author) Maggie Mason
Little, Brown Book Group
Sphere
3rd October 2019
3rd October 2019
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.92
Paperback
400
Width 126mm, Height 196mm, Spine 38mm
280g
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THE FIRST BOOK IN A BRAND NEW TRILOGY BYBestselling author Mary Wood writing as Maggie MasonThe next instalment - Blackpool Sisters - is available to PRE-ORDER NOW!'In the grand tradition of sagas set down by the late and great Catherine Cookson'Jean Fullerton on Blackpool Lass ______________Blackpool, 1893Tilly has come a long way from the run-down tenements in which she grew up. She has a small but comfortable home, a loving, handsome husband, two beautiful little'uns - Babs and Beth - and she earns herself a little money weaving wicker baskets. Life is good. Until the day Tilly returns home to find a policeman standing on her doorstep. Her Arthur won't be coming home tonight - nor any night - having fallen to his death whilst working on Blackpool tower. Suddenly Tilly is her daughters' sole protector, and she's never felt more alone.With the threat of destitution nipping at their heels, Tilly struggles to make ends meet and keep a roof over her girls' heads. In a town run by men Tilly has to ask herself what she's willing to do to keep her family together and safe - and will it be enoughThe perfect read for fans of Mary Wood, Kitty Neale, Val Wood and Nadine DorriesMaggie Mason also writes saga as Mary Wood. Mary was born the thirteenth child of fifteen and throughout her life had various factory, office and home-based jobs, finally becoming a probation service officer before she retired. Mary married in 1963 and with her husband Roy has four children, eight grandchildren, and five step-grandchildren. She got her first book deal in 2013 and has not looked back since.