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Tomorrow the World: A compulsive and intense saga of love and secrets
By (Author) Josephine Cox
Headline Publishing Group
Headline Book Publishing
11th June 2024
28th December 2023
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Historical fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Paperback
320
Width 128mm, Height 196mm, Spine 26mm
227g
Tomorrow the World is a breathtaking family drama of of heartache, friendship and longing.
Bridget Mulligan loves her husband. He is caring, loyal and dependable - everything a woman could ask for. But she can't quite forget Harry - the one that got away - and when a snowstorm drives her into his arms, the inevitable happens. Nine months later a child is born.Overcome with remorse, Bridget is determined that her husband should know the truth, but her confession can lead only to heartbreak. Although he allows his wife and her child to continue living in his home, Tom Mulligan makes it clear that their marriage is over. Lonely and afraid, Bridget finds comfort in the friendship of Fanny, a feisty young mother who knows what it is to be alone. But Bridget's life can never be complete until she has the love of the only man she ever really wanted . . .Josephine Cox was born in a cotton-mill house in Blackburn, one of ten children. At the age of sixteen, Josephine met and married her husband Ken, and had two sons. When the boys started school, she decided to go to college and eventually gained a place at Cambridge University. She was unable to take this up as it would have meant living away from home, but she went into teaching - and started to write her first full-length novel. Her strong, gritty stories are taken from the tapestry of life.