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The Fisherman’s Girl

Maggie Ford author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Ebury Publishing

Published:9th Aug '18

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

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Will Pam’s secret tear her family apart?

After the market crash of 1929, the Bowmaker family in Leigh-on-Sea are struggling to make ends meet. In these harsh times they must support each other or they risk their tight-knit family falling apart.

But Pamela Bowmaker has a secret. Her sweetheart is George Bryant, whose family has been feuding with the Bowmakers’ since before she was born. With a baby on the way, Pam will need her family’s help more than ever. Can their love heal old wounds for the sake of their baby, or are some grudges too deep to mend?


A warm-hearted and gripping saga, from the author of The Factory Girl and A Girl in Wartime


ISBN: 9780091956677

Dimensions: 198mm x 126mm x 30mm

Weight: 333g

496 pages