Dublin Girls - A powerfully heartrending family saga (Mansell Cathy)(Paperback / softback)

Dramatic, emotional and romantic, if you love Lorna Cook, Tracy Rees and Jenny Ashcroft, you''ll love this gripping and heartrending novel from Cathy Mansell, author of A Place to Belong.''Glorious - a cross between Maeve Binchy and Catherine Cookson'' 5* early reader review''A superb saga'' PETERBOROUGH TELEGRAPH''A heart-warming story full of characters you''ll come to love'' ROSIE GOODWIN''Page-turning and compelling... Most highly recommended'' MARGARET KAINE''Rarely have I read a book where every character springs from the pages so authentically'' JEAN CHAPMAN''A warm-hearted, engaging story'' MARGARET JAMES, WRITING MAGAZINEIn 1950s Dublin, life is hard and jobs are like gold dust.Nineteen-year-old Nell Flynn is training to be a nurse and planning to marry her boyfriend, Liam Connor, when her mother dies, leaving her younger sisters destitute. To save them from the workhouse, Nell returns to the family home - a mere two rooms at the top of a condemned tenement.Nell finds work at a biscuit factory and, at first, they scrape through each week. But then eight-year-old Róisín, delicate from birth, is admitted to hospital with rheumatic fever and fifteen-year-old Kate, rebellious, headstrong and resentful of Nell taking her mother''s place, runs away.When Liam finds work in London, Nell stays to struggle on alone - her unwavering devotion to her sisters stronger even than her love for him. She''s determined that one day the Dublin girls will be reunited and only then w
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