A Rare Ruby: A touching saga of the devastation of war - Hardcover

Williams, Dee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0747271380 ISBN 13: 9780747271383

Publisher: Headline Book Publishing, 2002

Synopsis

When Ruby's father returns, shell-shocked, from the front lines of the Great War, the young girl realises that things will never be the same again. Forced to leave school and help her mother wash clothes, Ruby closes the door on her childhood. When she takes a job at the local laundry, Ruby enjoys the friendship of the other women there, but there's also bitchiness and jealousy amongst the workers. At home there's growing tension with the live-in landlord as Ruby grows into an attractive woman, but not the kind who's willing to use her charms to win favours. Ruby's heart belongs to one man only, a local boy she's known all her life, but there are many battles to be fought before they start a life together...

About this title

About the Author

Dee Williams was born and brought up in Rotherhithe in East London where her father worked as a stevedore in Surrey Docks. Dee left school at fourteen, met her husband at sixteen and was married at twenty. After living abroad for some years, Dee and her husband moved to Hampshire, close to the rest of her family.

Edition details

• Publisher: Headline Book Publishing
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0747271380
• ISBN 13: 9780747271383
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320