The Empire girls
Wilsher, Sue2017
Book
Tilbury, 1950s. The Empire is a boarding house run by Vi, Doris's mother, the Empire Girls of the title. When Doris becomes pregnant out of marriage, she is kicked out of the house and forced to fend for herself. Desperate to look after her daughter, she takes any job going. She falls in with the Windrush immigrants and finds herself helping one to a new life in Britain.
Main title:
The Empire girls / Sue Wilsher.
Author:
Wilsher, Sue, author
Work:
Imprint:
London Sphere, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group 2017©2017
Collation:
376 pages ; 25 cm.
Notes:
"A good mother will do anything to protect her daughter" -- cover.
ISBN:
9780751564617 (hardback)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
15542