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Sisters on Bread Street
Frances Brody
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Description for Sisters on Bread Street
Paperback. A beautiful tale of two sisters in wartime Leeds, from the bestselling author of the Kate Shackleton mysteries Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Leeds, 1914. Sisters Julia and Margaret Wood are struggling to rise above devastating poverty, while the threat of war looms large over their community. Angry feelings about foreigners have reached boiling point; their German-Jewish father's search for work proves hopeless, leaving entrepreneurial Julia to keep the family afloat by hawking homemade pies on the streets of Leeds. Her beautiful elder sister Margaret, an apprentice milliner and new member of the suffragette set, seeks a faster way out of the daily grind, pinning her hopes on a rich suffragette's journalist son, Thomas. But as ... Read more
Leeds, 1914. Sisters Julia and Margaret Wood are struggling to rise above devastating poverty, while the threat of war looms large over their community. Angry feelings about foreigners have reached boiling point; their German-Jewish father's search for work proves hopeless, leaving entrepreneurial Julia to keep the family afloat by hawking homemade pies on the streets of Leeds. Her beautiful elder sister Margaret, an apprentice milliner and new member of the suffragette set, seeks a faster way out of the daily grind, pinning her hopes on a rich suffragette's journalist son, Thomas. But as ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349410708
SKU
V9780349410708
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Frances Brody
Frances Brody is the author of ten mysteries featuring Kate Shackleton as well as many stories and plays for BBC Radio, scripts for television and three sagas, one of which won the HarperCollins Elizabeth Elgin Award. A Woman Unknown was short-listed for the Mary Higgins Clark Award. Her stage plays have been toured by several theatre companies and produced at ... Read more
Reviews for Sisters on Bread Street
Frances Brody makes every turn of the page a step back into time in her wonderfully sumptuous sagas . . . storytelling at its very best.
Diane Allen Frances Brody captures the tragedies and joys of old working-class Leeds in vivid and heartfelt storytelling.
Elizabeth Gill Frances writes strong, believable characters and has a meticulous eye for period ... Read more
Diane Allen Frances Brody captures the tragedies and joys of old working-class Leeds in vivid and heartfelt storytelling.
Elizabeth Gill Frances writes strong, believable characters and has a meticulous eye for period ... Read more