Autumn Alley
Enter a world of gas lights and horse-drawn buses, gin-soaked night clubs and fluttering lace curtains . . .
Author: Lena Kennedy
Gas lights and horse drawn buses, gin-soaked night clubs and fluttering lace curtains: the world of AUTUMN ALLEY.
Meet Maud, the formidable Irish-American suffragette; sulky Patricia, whose unhappy childhood leads her to a dangerous love affair; vivacious, flame-haired Colleen; Mary, who struggles to bring up children beside her wayward husband - and Arfer, whose quick mind lifts him out from the world of poverty in London's East End.
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Gas lights and horse drawn buses, gin-soaked night clubs and fluttering lace curtains: the world of AUTUMN ALLEY.
Meet Maud, the formidable Irish-American suffragette; sulky Patricia, whose unhappy childhood leads her to a dangerous love affair; vivacious, flame-haired Colleen; Mary, who struggles to bring up children beside her wayward husband - and Arfer, whose quick mind lifts him out from the world of poverty in London's East End.
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Meet Maud, the formidable Irish-American suffragette; sulky Patricia, whose unhappy childhood leads her to a dangerous love affair; vivacious, flame-haired Colleen; Mary, who struggles to bring up children beside her wayward husband - and Arfer, whose quick mind lifts him out from the world of poverty in London's East End.
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“'Lena Kennedy is the genuine article'”
Lena Kennedy is the genuine article - Sunday Express
About the Author
Lena Kennedy lived all her life in the East End of London and wrote with great energy about the people and times she knew there. She was 67 before her first novel, MAGGIE, was accepted for publication. Since then her novels have shown her to be among the finest and best loved of contemporary novelists. She died in August 1986.
Meet Maud, the formidable Irish-American suffragette; sulky Patricia, whose unhappy childhood leads her to a dangerous love affair; vivacious, flame-haired Colleen; Mary, who struggles to bring up children beside her wayward husband - and Arfer, whose quick mind lifts him out from the world of poverty in London's East End.
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