All My Mother’s Secrets

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER’Beautifully-penned story on the harshness of life and how hope survives’ – Sun’Absorbing . . . Marsh writes with a novelistic flair’ – Daily Mail From the grimy streets of Acton and Notting Hill to the bright lights of the West End, Sunday Times bestselling author Beezy Marsh’s All My Motherâ Secrets is a powerful, uplifting story of a young womanâ struggle to come to terms with her familyâ tragic past.Annie Austinâ childhood ends at the age of twelve, when she joins her mother in one of the slum laundries of Acton, working long hours for little pay. What spare time she has is spent looking after her younger brother George and her two stepsisters, under the glowering eye of her stepfather Bill. In London between the wars, a girl like Annie has few choices in life – but a powerful secret will change her destiny.All Annie knows about her real father is that he died in the Great War, and as the years pass she is haunted by the pain of losing him. Her downtrodden mother won’t tell her more and Annieâ attempts to uncover the truth threaten to destroy her family. Distraught, she runs away to Covent Garden, but can she survive on her own and find the love which has eluded her so far?

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