Pamela Evans
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For West London girls Sal and Ann Storey, 1957 should have been one of the happiest years of their lives. Instead, the sisters' world is turned upside down when two family tragedies strike in quick succession. Left to run the family's sweetshop with their grandmother, Sal discovers she has a flair for business - but it doesn't make up for everything she and Ann have lost. When Sal meets handsome taxi driver Bob Beck and falls deeply in love, it seems...
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2013
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English
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West London, 1936. Looking forward to a more prosperous future after the Depression, 15-year-old May Stubbs and her family take on a derelict cricket pavilion, convert it into a cafe and general store, and find it quickly becomes the hub of the community. Then May contracts tuberculosis. Leaving her best friend Betty Lane and lifelong soul mate George Bailey behind, she is sent away to fight off the illness. But on her return to London, she finds...
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2017
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English
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When Polly Pritchard learns that her husband has been killed in action, she brings up their young daughter Emmie alone. To make ends meet she gets a job at the Cherry Ballroom in West London and it is here that she meets James, a Canadian airman, and they fall in love. But then Polly's husband turns up, very much alive. Life is even harder for Polly after the war; James has gone; her husband is involved in a criminal gang; and their daughter suffers...
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2009
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English
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It's 1904, & close sisters Bessie & May live a happy but frugal life in the busy maritime village of Tideway in Essex. But trouble divides the family when May falls pregnant, & she is sent away to London. Once in London, heartbroken May refuses to have an abortion & stays on in the city to bring up her child.
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2015
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It is February 1945 and April Green wonders if the war will ever end. Then the local pub takes a direct hit and April's father is killed in the blast. Life without him is hard and April and her brother do all they can to help, particularly when their mother announces she is pregnant. Volunteering to tend her father's allotment, April discovers a passion for growing vegetables. Meanwhile, Winnie Benson is coming to terms with her husband's spinal injuries....
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2014
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Bringing the keep fit movement vividly to life in 1940s' London, Pam Evans' family saga will inspire and enthral anyone who has ever dared to dream of a better life. In the middle of a party to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V in 1935, Mollie Fisher's good-for-nothing husband walks out on his wife and baby girl. Luckily, Mollie has a loving family to turn to for help. Mollie's mother, Marge, is delighted to look after baby Esme while...