Euro
British Pound
Product Description
In the impoverished area of Nechells in Birmingham
in the 1930s, young Emma Brown's life is turned upside
down when her mother, Cynthia has other baby.
Emma has always been a happy-go-lucky child, content
as long as things were all right at home with her
parents, and her brother and sister. But when the baby
is born everything changes. Cynthia doesn't seem able
to cope, and even her lifelong friend and neighbour,
Dot, can't seem to get through to her. Cynthia's
husband, Bob, tries to do his best, but when he feels
he's losing the wife he loves so much he turns to drink.
Poor Em can't seem to keep up with looking after the
household, and soon it seems that the only thing to do
is for Cynthia to go and stay with her tyrannical older
sister across the city.
Life gets even tougher for Em with her mother away.
Plus her best friend ostracizes her, and she's got the
Board Man calling at the door about her lack of
attendance at school. When Bob stays out later and
later, always the worse for wear and gradually falling
into the clutches of glamorous widow Flossie Dawson,
Em decides it's time to travel across Birmingham and
bring her mother home. But the woman she discovers
is very different from the mother she remembers . . .
. All of our books are second hand, and while you may not get the exact copy shown in the picture, all of our books are in very good condition. Removing stickers from a book may damage it, so we refrain from doing so. If you see a price sticker on a book, please ignore it.
