Dorothys War - Hardcover

Hamilton, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593053133 ISBN 13: 9780593053133

Publisher: Bantam Press, 2005

Synopsis

It's an ill wind...Born into WW1, Dorothy has a bleak childhood under the iron fist of an implacable mother and the silent compliance of a browbeaten father. Her escape is achieved just before the disastrous advent of Hitler, and there is further tragedy to come. Follow her through childhood and adolescence, then on into her twenties when, finally made whole, she wins her own battle for freedom, for love and for her own place in the world.

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About the Author

Ruth Hamilton became one of the north-west of England's most popular writers, her bestselling books include With Love From Ma Maguire, A Crooked Mile and Dorothy’s War. Ruth Hamilton was born in Bolton, which is the setting for many of her novels, and spent most of her life in Lancashire before moving to Liverpool. She died in 2016.

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It's an ill wind . . .

Dorothy has grown up in the years following the First World War, and during her bleak childhood she has always known that her family is different. Her implacable mother Molly seems incapable of loving her, and the cruelty and deprivation she endures are watched silently by her browbeaten father. Only her childhood friend, Steve, gives her any affection and as soon as she is old enough, on the eve of the Second World War, she escapes from home and marries him.

But during that war she loses Steve and the baby they both longed for. Rather than return to Molly, she escapes for the second time to work at Burbank Hall, where the war wounded are being treated. Here she meets Andrew, a young doctor who has also known pain and deprivation, and as she blossoms once again, she discovers the key to the secrets from her past.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593053133
• ISBN 13: 9780593053133
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336