The surplus girls' orphans
Heron, Polly2021
Book
Manchester, 1922. Molly Watson has had enough. Engaged for the last three years to a penny-pinching pedant, she finally decides she'd rather be a surplus girl than marry a man she doesn't truly love. Aware of the need to support herself if she is to remain single all her life, she joins a secretarial class to learn new skills, and a whole world opens up to her. When she gets a job at St Anthony's Orphanage, she befriends caretaker Aaron Abrams. But a misunderstanding leaves them at loggerheads, and damages her in the eyes of the children she has come to care so deeply about. Can she recover her reputation, her livelihood, and her budding friendship, before it's too late?
Main title:
The surplus girls' orphans / Polly Heron.
Author:
Heron, Polly, author
Imprint:
London : Corvus, 2021.
Collation:
422 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Surplus girls ; 2
ISBN:
9781786499691
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
Subject:
Friendship -- FictionMan-woman relationships -- FictionNineteen twenties -- FictionOrphanages -- Employees -- FictionOrphans -- FictionYoung women -- England -- Manchester -- FictionGreat Britain -- History -- George V, 1910-1936 -- FictionManchester (England) -- History -- 20th century -- FictionDomestic fictionHistorical fiction
BRN:
135824