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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
* A bittersweet novel of love and loss, set in Tooting and Balham in the 1920s.
When Janey has to leave her home after her stepfather beats her up so badly her mother fears for her safety, she finds herself in a children's home deep in the Sussex countryside. Unused to open space, fields and love she soons settles in and the friends she makes quickly become her new family.
But, at the age of sixteen, Janey has to leave the home and is found a job in Balham as a housemaid. She feels abandoned again and the job is awful. Lonely and miserable, things get even worse when Janey falls ill with influenza and nearly dies. Although she recovers, Janey's situation doesn't improve until she meets Christy, a blind woman, and is employed as her companion. The two women become friends and when Janey meets Christy's son, Charles, she soon realises that she has fallen in love with him. But Charles is married and Janey fears that she will never find the happiness she has always longed for...
Praise for A London Lass
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If you like your heroines pure, beautiful and universally beloved; Cockneys to have hearts of gold under their rough exteriors; and sentiment rather than emotion, look no further. This is the book for you - HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW
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Full of warmth and domestic detail...captures the Cockney spirit of its age. - KEIGHLEY NEWS
Elizabeth Waite
Elizabeth Waite was born in Tooting, South London and lived there until she was 34. During the war she worked as a bus conductress at Merton Garage. In 1956 she and her husband moved to Devon and bought their first guesthouse. Now retired, Elizabeth lives in East Sussex. An East End Christmas is her eighteenth novel.
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