A Mother's Promise - Hardcover

Court, Dilly

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ISBN 10: 0750530588 ISBN 13: 9780750530583

Publisher: Magna Large Print Books, 2009

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When Hetty Huggins made a promise to her dying mother that she would look after her younger sister and brothers, little did she know how difficult this would be. But despite the daily threat of being turned out on the streets by the unscrupulous tallyman and the never-ending struggle just to exist, Hetty is determined her family will never starve or want for a roof over their heads. And wanting something better out of life than the daily grind of making match boxes for a pittance, she dreams of setting up her own business. With the help of friends she sells hot potatoes on the streets and things begin to look up for them all. But when the tallyman comes calling, once more they are faced with a future full of hardship and despair.

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Book Description:

An enthralling new saga set in turn-of-the-twentieth-century London from the author of The Constant Heart.

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Hetty had learned long ago that having money made the difference between living and simply existing. She would never allow her family to go hungry again. There had to be a better life somewhere, and she was determined to work until she had found this other place; where the streets were not knee deep in horse dung and rotting vegetable matter, where sewers did not overflow every time there was a rainstorm, where disease did not claim the lives of babies and small children, and where men and women were not withered into a premature old age from poverty and want.

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