My Sister's Child
By (Author) Lyn Andrews
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
6th November 2000
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
320
Width 164mm, Height 31mm, Spine 241mm
547g
For the inhabitants of Liverpool's Milton Street a steady income and a safe roof over their heads are precious luxuries. The Ryan family have barely grown accustomed to having such things when a fire destroys, at a single stroke, the modest coal haulage business their father Jack has built, leaving Jack broken and his family wondering how they will survive. It's not long before they're forced to turn to Conor, Jack's brother from Ireland, a man whose noisy joviality seventeen-year-old Ellen Ryan suspects hides a mean viciousness. She's right, and with her mother sick and her half-sister Annie becoming increasingly feckless, it's down to Ellen to fight Conor's drunken tyranny. But when Annie disappears, leaving her unwanted baby on their doorstep, Ellen begins fear not only for her own safety, but for that of the innocent child she has instantly learnt to love...
Lyn Andrews was born and raised in Liverpool. In 1993 she was shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Award.