The Fishermans Girl
By (Author) Maggie Ford
Ebury Publishing
Ebury Press
15th August 2018
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
823.914
Paperback
496
Width 126mm, Height 198mm, Spine 30mm
333g
A heartwarming family saga for readers who love Jenny Holmes and Elaine Everest Will Pam's secret tear her family apart After the market crash of 1929, the Bowmaker family in Leigh-on-Sea are struggling to make ends meet. In these harsh times they must support each other or they risk their tight-knit family falling apart. But Pamela Bowmaker has a secret. Her sweetheart is George Bryant, whose family has been feuding with the Bowmakers' since before she was born. With a baby on the way, Pam will need her family's help more than ever. Can their love heal old wounds for the sake of their baby, or are some grudges too deep to mend A warm-hearted and gripping saga, from the author of The Factory Girl and A Girl in Wartime
Maggie Ford was born in the East End of London but at the age of six she moved to Essex, where she lived for the rest of her life. After the death of her first husband, when Maggie was only twenty-six, she went to work as a legal secretary until she remarried in 1968. She wrote short stories from the early 1970s up to her death at the age of 92.