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In the bleak midwinter

In the bleak midwinter

Rivers, Carol.
Large Print 2012

Winter 1919. Two months after the Armistice that ended the Great War, and life in London's East End is slowly returning to normal. But for 25-year-old Birdie Connor the battle is only just beginning. Frank, Birdie's older brother, has been sent to prison for deserting his army post whilst fighting in Belgium, and the shame heaped on the Connor family by their neighbours is unrelenting. Wilfred, Birdie's widowed father, has disowned Frank and vows...

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East End (London, England) Social life and customs Fiction
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ISBN:
9780750536196
Description:
444 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
large print
Notes:
Standard print edition originally published: London : Simon & Schuster, 2011
Control Number:
899219
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