Tuppence To Spend
By (Author) Lilian Harry
Orion Publishing Co
Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
1st January 2004
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
823.914
Paperback
464
Width 115mm, Height 178mm, Spine 38mm
252g
Dan Hodges is devastated when his wife Nora dies during the early days of the war. Working long hours in a Portsmouth shipyard, how is he to look after his two sons, Gordon and Sammy Then Gordon, something of a tearaway, is sent to an approved school, which leaves young Sammy alone in the house until neighbours in April Grove intervene and Sammy is evacuated to Bridge End, a village near Southampton. Ruth Purslow, a young childless widow, takes him in, her compassion aroused by his plight. Slowly, as they grow closer, Ruth begins to dread the time when Sammy must return to Portsmouth...TUPPENCE TO SPEND is a vivid wartime saga of colour and authenticity capturing both the harshness and the warmth of life during the dark days of the Second World War.
Lilian Harry grew up in Portsmouth. She has a son, a daughter, and two grandchildren, and now lives in a village on the edge of Dartmoor.