Elizabeth Waite
Author of Wheeling and Dealing
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Total Commitment by Elizabeth Waite
This almost got a 2 star. The story was really good, but I didn't care for the writing too much. I felt it was a little repetitious and to over the top with the nicey nice stuff.
The town of North Waltham, England, is a little town where the people are just plain nice and take care of their own. When it is discovered that an orphange in London is looking for homes so the orphans can have a vacation in the country, North Waltham opens its doors and hearts. Emma and Sam Pearson have two daughters, so they request two boys. This brings Tom and John into their lives. This is a sweet book with endearing characters; just wish there had been more "meat" to the story.
A sort of sweet look at a family in a village in northern England during the Depression and the early years of WW II. The details of home life and the isolation of the village were refreshing amid today's world.
This is the third book by this author that I have read and have enjoyed each one. She writes romance/saga type novels usually based in the early 1900's.
Back Cover Blurb:
London, 1918. Patsy Kent is only thirteen years old when her dear mother dies and leaves her an orphan. But when the authorities try to take her away from Strathmore Street, and the warm, happy-go-lucky Londoners who regard her as one of their own, they have fight on their hands.
As she becomes a young woman, and starts work in the local market like her mother before her, Patsy discovers all too soon the pain of first love, when cruel Johnny Jackson plays with her emotions and then casts their marriage thoughtlessly aside. Only the support of the market traders and friends who have always stood by her can raise her characteristic cockney spirit, and fortune smiles on Patsy when a real, deep love grows between her and the shy, thoughful Eddie Owen. But the pointed fingers of the gossips, and the shame of living in adultery may prove too high a price for Patsy to pay, and it seems her only hope for happiness is to leave London and the very community she has come to call her family....… (more)
Back Cover Blurb:
London, 1918. Patsy Kent is only thirteen years old when her dear mother dies and leaves her an orphan. But when the authorities try to take her away from Strathmore Street, and the warm, happy-go-lucky Londoners who regard her as one of their own, they have fight on their hands.
As she becomes a young woman, and starts work in the local market like her mother before her, Patsy discovers all too soon the pain of first love, when cruel Johnny Jackson plays with her emotions and then casts their marriage thoughtlessly aside. Only the support of the market traders and friends who have always stood by her can raise her characteristic cockney spirit, and fortune smiles on Patsy when a real, deep love grows between her and the shy, thoughful Eddie Owen. But the pointed fingers of the gossips, and the shame of living in adultery may prove too high a price for Patsy to pay, and it seems her only hope for happiness is to leave London and the very community she has come to call her family....… (more)
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