Author: Pat Barker
Publisher: Virago
ISBN: 0349009228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
'Vivid, bawdy and bitter' THE TIMES 'A first-rate first novel . . . pungent, raunchy dialogue . . . passages of fine understated wit' IVAN GOLD, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh challeges of poverty and survival in a precarious world. There's Kelly, at eleven, neglected and independent, dealing with a squalid rape; Dinah, knocking on sixty and still on the game; Joanne, not yet twenty, not yet married and already pregnant. Old Alice is welcoming her impending death whilst Muriel helplessly watches the decline of her stoical husband. And linking them all, watching over them all, mother to half the street, is fiery, indomitable Iris.
Union Street
Author: Pat Barker
Publisher: Virago
ISBN: 0349009228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
'Vivid, bawdy and bitter' THE TIMES 'A first-rate first novel . . . pungent, raunchy dialogue . . . passages of fine understated wit' IVAN GOLD, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh challeges of poverty and survival in a precarious world. There's Kelly, at eleven, neglected and independent, dealing with a squalid rape; Dinah, knocking on sixty and still on the game; Joanne, not yet twenty, not yet married and already pregnant. Old Alice is welcoming her impending death whilst Muriel helplessly watches the decline of her stoical husband. And linking them all, watching over them all, mother to half the street, is fiery, indomitable Iris.
Publisher: Virago
ISBN: 0349009228
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
'Vivid, bawdy and bitter' THE TIMES 'A first-rate first novel . . . pungent, raunchy dialogue . . . passages of fine understated wit' IVAN GOLD, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh challeges of poverty and survival in a precarious world. There's Kelly, at eleven, neglected and independent, dealing with a squalid rape; Dinah, knocking on sixty and still on the game; Joanne, not yet twenty, not yet married and already pregnant. Old Alice is welcoming her impending death whilst Muriel helplessly watches the decline of her stoical husband. And linking them all, watching over them all, mother to half the street, is fiery, indomitable Iris.
Union Street & Blow Your House Down
Author: Pat Barker
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312240899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
"Union Street: Concerns seven neighboring women near a factory in northeast England. Life for these women is trying: some of them are married to alcoholics, some are victims of abuse; one is old and near death, another is still a child but has the experience of an adult; all are struggling to survive."--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312240899
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
"Union Street: Concerns seven neighboring women near a factory in northeast England. Life for these women is trying: some of them are married to alcoholics, some are victims of abuse; one is old and near death, another is still a child but has the experience of an adult; all are struggling to survive."--Provided by publisher.
The Union Street Bakery
Author: Mary Ellen Taylor
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101619295
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In the first novel of the Union Street Bakery series, Daisy McCrae learns how easily life can turn on a dime… Suddenly without a job or a boyfriend, Daisy now lives in the attic above her family’s store, the Union Street Bakery, while she learns the business. It doesn’t help that, as the only adopted daughter, her relationship with her sisters has never been easy. When an elderly customer dies, Daisy is surprised to inherit a journal from the 1850s, written by a slave girl named Susie. As she reads, Daisy learns more about her family—and her own heritage—than she ever dreamed. Haunted by dreams of the young Susie, who beckons Daisy to “find her,” she is compelled to explore the past more deeply. What she finds are the answers she has longed for her entire life.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101619295
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
In the first novel of the Union Street Bakery series, Daisy McCrae learns how easily life can turn on a dime… Suddenly without a job or a boyfriend, Daisy now lives in the attic above her family’s store, the Union Street Bakery, while she learns the business. It doesn’t help that, as the only adopted daughter, her relationship with her sisters has never been easy. When an elderly customer dies, Daisy is surprised to inherit a journal from the 1850s, written by a slave girl named Susie. As she reads, Daisy learns more about her family—and her own heritage—than she ever dreamed. Haunted by dreams of the young Susie, who beckons Daisy to “find her,” she is compelled to explore the past more deeply. What she finds are the answers she has longed for her entire life.
Rules, orders, and regulations of the Surrey Dispensary in Union Street, Southwark, for attending Lying-in-Women, etc. (A List of the Governors, etc.).
City Documents
Author: New Bedford (Mass.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Bedford (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
Book Description
Includes the reports of the Auditor, City Clerk, Engineering Dept., Fire Dept., Board of Health, Dept. of Parks, Board of Overseers of the Poor, Free Public Library, School Committee, Superintendent of Streets, and Water Board.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Bedford (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1094
Book Description
Includes the reports of the Auditor, City Clerk, Engineering Dept., Fire Dept., Board of Health, Dept. of Parks, Board of Overseers of the Poor, Free Public Library, School Committee, Superintendent of Streets, and Water Board.
Glasgow post-office directory [afterw.] Post office Glasgow directory
Post office directory of Berkshire, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, with Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Huntingdonshire [afterw.] The Post office directory of Northamptonshire, Huntingdonshire, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire, and Oxfordshire
Author: Kelly's directories, ltd
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Doidge's Western Counties' Illustrated Annual for ...
Author:
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Category : West Country (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West Country (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Year Book of the Dutchess County Historical Society
Author: Dutchess County Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dutchess County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dutchess County (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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