Carole Matthews is one of the bestselling women's fiction writers around. Romance & Sagas
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Caring for her invalid mother while working in the huge Paisley threadmills by day and in a local fried fish shop in the evenings Mirren Jarvis has a hard life, with her only pleasure an occasional visit to a local dance-hall. She lives for the day when she can join her sweetheart, Donald, in America where, after surviving the Great War, he is forging a new and better life for them both. But just as Mirren is free to go to him Donald begins to doubt his love for her. Abandoned, Mirren turns to her love of dancing for comfort, but worry still dogs her. Her young brother Robbie has developed a keen interest in politics and has fallen under the spell of Joe Hepburn, a withdrawn man whose hunger for Socialism, Mirren fears, could lead himself and Robbie into danger.Latest Additions
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