All My Mother's Secrets: A Powerful True Story of Love, Loss and a Family Torn A

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From top ten bestselling author of Keeping My Sisters' Secrets comes a moving, evocative true story about Beezy Marsh's grandmother and the family secrets that threaten her happiness.

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Annie is the eldest daughter of a laundress in Acton, London, raised to keep the rich families of Kensington spick and span. As she grows up in poverty in the 1920s and 1930s, her life centres on the family business, working long hours of hard physical labour. When she's not in the laundry she's looking after her younger brother and two step-sisters. But she's haunted by thoughts of her real father and what happened to him. All she knows is that he died in the Great War - her mother will not talk about him and his very existence is shrouded in secrecy.Annie's search for the truth angers and frightens her mother, who throws her out of the house. Undaunted, Annie continues, convinced that solving the puzzle holds the key to her future happiness, as she simply doesn't seem able to trust men. Can Annie cut the apron strings binding her to the drudgery of life in the laundry business and find the love that had eluded her so far?Author Beezy Marsh's first book, Keeping My Sisters' Secrets, was a Sunday Times bestseller. In All My Mother's Secrets she has crafted an equally rich, moving and emotional story of a young woman's journey as she faces up to the choices of the previous generation.

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The author of Keeping My Sisters' Secrets presents a true story about her grandmother's family secrets, as her grandmother balanced laundry work with looking after her brothers and sisters while investigating what really happened to her mysterious father in the Great War.

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A vivid, heart-warming story of survival Annie Austin's childhood ends at the age of twelve, when she joins her mother in one of the slum laundries of Acton, working long hours for little pay. What spare time she has is spent looking after her younger brother George and her two stepsisters, under the glowering eye of her stepfather Bill. In London between the wars, a girl like Annie has few choices in life - but a powerful secret will change her destiny.All Annie knows about her real father is that he died in the Great War, and as the years pass she is haunted by the pain of losing him. Her downtrodden mother won't tell her more and Annie's attempts to uncover the truth threaten to destroy her family. Distraught, she runs away to Covent Garden, but can she survive on her own and find the love which has eluded her so far?From the grimy streets of Acton and Notting Hill to the bright lights of the West End, All My Mother's Secrets is a powerful, uplifting story of a young woman's struggle to come to terms with her family's tragic past.

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A vivid, heart-warming story of survival Annie Austin's childhood ends at the age of twelve, when she joins her mother in one of the slum laundries of Acton, working long hours for little pay. What spare time she has is spent looking after her younger brother George and her two stepsisters, under the glowering eye of her stepfather Bill. In London between the wars, a girl like Annie has few choices in life - but a powerful secret will change her destiny. All Annie knows about her real father is that he died in the Great War, and as the years pass she is haunted by the pain of losing him. Her downtrodden mother won't tell her more and Annie's attempts to uncover the truth threaten to destroy her family. Distraught, she runs away to Covent Garden, but can she survive on her own and find the love which has eluded her so far? From the grimy streets of Acton and Notting Hill to the bright lights of the West End, All My Mother's Secrets is a powerful, uplifting story of a young woman's struggle to come to terms with her family's tragic past.

Author Biography

Beezy Marsh is an award-winning journalist, who spent more than twenty years making the headlines in newspapers including the Daily Mail and the Sunday Times. Today she writes romantic fiction, as well as memoir and biography, and somehow finds time to write a blog about her life as an imperfect mother to two young boys, in between tackling a never-ending pile of laundry and doing the school run. Family and relationships are at the heart of her writing and she is a firm believer that sisters, mothers and wives are the glue which binds everything together. She is the author of Keeping My Sisters' Secrets, Mad Frank and Sons and Mr Make Believe.

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Beautifully penned story on the harshness of life and how hope survives. * The Sun *Heartwarming. * Kimberley Chambers *Absorbing . . . Marsh writes with a novelistic flair. * Daily Mail *

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From top ten bestselling author of Keeping My Sisters' Secrets comes a moving, evocative true story about Beezy Marsh's grandmother and the family secrets that threaten her happiness.

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From top ten bestselling author of Keeping My Sisters' Secrets comes a moving, evocative true story about Beezy Marsh's grandmother and the family secrets that threaten her happiness.

Details ISBN1509892702 Author Beezy Marsh Publisher Pan Macmillan ISBN-10 1509892702 ISBN-13 9781509892709 Format Paperback Year 2018 Publication Date 2018-08-09 Media Book Audience Age 18 Imprint Pan Books Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Pages 400 DEWEY 942.1085092 Subtitle A Powerful True Story of Love, Loss and a Family Torn Apart Short Title All My Mother's Secrets Language English UK Release Date 2018-08-09 AU Release Date 2018-08-09 NZ Release Date 2018-08-09 Audience General We've got this

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