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Durham:1920s. Ella's happy childhood in Swan Island is abruptly ended when her father dies, leaving the family bankrupt. Ella and her mother must go and live with her grandmother, who runs the Silver Street Caf, but Ella vows to return to her childhood home one day. After a first, unhappy marriage, she settles into steady domesticity with David Black, but there had been another doomed romance during the early years of the Second World War, and Ella has never forgotten Harry. It has been years since she last saw him, but old memories are stirred when he comes back into her life...

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This is the first in a new trilogy from a well-loved author. 1920s, Durham, England. Ella's happy childhood in the Swan Island district of her beloved home town is abruptly ended when her father dies, leaving the family bankrupt. Ella and her mother go to live with her grandmother, who runs the Silver Street cafe. But Ella will never forget her childhood home, and vows to return one day. After a first, unhappy marriage she settles into domesticity with local businessman, David Black. But there had been another doomed romance in the early years of the Second World War, and Ella has never forgotten Harry. In 1951, now a contented wife and mother, he comes back into her life...

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  • PublisherMagna Large Print Books
  • Publication date2008
  • ISBN 10 0750529075
  • ISBN 13 9780750529075
  • BindingHardcover
  • Number of pages384
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