Overview: Maureen Lee was born in Bootle and now lives in Colchester, Essex. She has had numerous short stories published and a play staged.Maureen Leeβs award-winning novels have earned her many fans. Her recent novel, The Leaving of Liverpool, was a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller.
The House by Princes Park
β Scribed by Lee, Maureen
- Book ID
- 109127657
- Publisher
- Orion
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 277 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781409132356
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
The product of an affair between a nurse and an injured American soldier during the Great War, Ruby O'Hagan's early life is spent in an orphanage. At sixteen she runs away with a farmworker, and two years later she is alone and homeless with her two daughters. Her friend, Mrs Hart, leaves her big friendly house for Ruby to look after, and it is here that her life unfolds. Her children leave but return when tragedy befalls them. Through all this, the enigmatic Matthew Flynn drifts in and out of Ruby's life. She ignores him until it is almost too late.
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