The Girl from Cotton Lane - Rilegato

Bowling, Harry

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ISBN 10: 0747228183 ISBN 13: 9780747228189

Casa editrice: Headline, 1992

Riassunto

Cotton Lane in dockland Bermondsey is one of the many small cobbled streets which serve the wharves. On the corner is Bradley's Dining Rooms, the favourite eating place of the rivermen, trade union officials and horse and motor drivers. Since her marriage to Fred Bradley, Carrie has been running the dining rooms, and trade has picked up since the end of the Great War.

But all is not well between Carrie and Fred. For although they have a little daughter they adore, neither of them is truly content. Will they ever know true happiness?

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Descrizione del libro:

A remarkable portrayal of an East End docklands community between the two world wars as it undergoes rapid and turbulent change

L'autore:

Harry Bowling was born in Bermondsey, London, and left school at fourteen to supplement the family income as an office boy in a riverside provisions' merchant. He was called up for National Service in the 1950s. Before becoming a writer, he was variously employed as a lorry driver, milkman, meat cutter, carpenter and decorator, and community worker. He lived with his wife and family, dividing his time between Lancashire and Deptford. We at Headline are sorry to say that THE WHISPERING YEARS was Harry Bowling's last novel, as he very sadly died in February 1999. We worked with him for over ten years, ever since the publication of his first novel, CONNER STREET'S WAR, and we miss him enormously, as do his many, many fans around the world.

The Harry Bowling Prize was set up in memory of Harry to encourage new, unpublished fiction. Go to www.harrybowlingprize.net for more information.

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• Editore: Headline
• Data di pubblicazione: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0747228183
• ISBN 13: 9780747228189
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida