A Daughter’s SorrowHeartache and hardship in Londons East End, from the bestselling author of The Orphans of Halfpenny Street Bridget has always been the one to take on the responsibility for looking after her family. With a drunken, violent mother, an unemployed brother who can't stay out of pub brawls and a wayward sister vulnerable to the smooth talk of shady men, it's hardly surprising when she falls for cheeky local lad, Ernie. But when he breaks her heart, she is

two years later

Unflinching Honesty: A raw

If a culture has writing

fascinating book

Propulsive and poetic

The four friends think that no matter what

But the revelations Joni

All through the spring

and the second

A happy home is a home that expresses your rituals and your taste

passionate marriage starts to unravel as the story moves toward its shocking reckoning

And down on the plains