Carole Matthews is one of the bestselling women's fiction writers around. Romance & Sagas
Synopsis
A powerful drama of family life set in South London in the post-war fifties and sixties
When Elsie and Bert Jones move with their children, Ann and Arthur, to Candle Lane, a modest street in Battersea, they miss their comfortable house in Wimbledon. But they are a warm-hearted family and soon fit into the street, making friends with their less fortunate neighbour, Ruth, and her daughter Sally. Family life is at the heart of Candle Lane – ranging from the worst excesses of childhood sexual abuse to a maternal love so devoted that a mother will collude to break a young girl’s heart in order to protect her own son.
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