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Charity Stratton's bleak childhood is changed for ever when both her parents are killed in a fire. Separated by the authorities from her younger brothers and sister, Charity is sent out to work as a skivvy in a boys' boarding school. Her loneliness and misery are eased when she falls deeply in love with the dashing but fickle sixth-former, Hugh Mainwaring, but when she discovers she is pregnant with Hugh's baby she soon realises just how alone she really is. Determined to be reunited with her siblings and to make something of herself, Charity runs away to London and begins to forge a new life. No library descriptions found. |
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Charity was no exception, her story starts when she is a young girl, abused and mistreated by her parents but staying silent about her ordeal because of her protective feelings for her younger brothers and sister. We follow her life as she grows into a beautiful, accomplished woman. The time period was interesting to me as I grew up in the sixties and remember the fashions and music that is described in the book.
So although I would label this book a “Beach Read”, it was still a real page turner that kept my interest until the end, and I know there will be other Lesley Pearse books in my future. ( )