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She couldn’t forget the boy across the street
Rose Bradshaw is brought up a stone’s throw from Blackpool’s bustling promenade. She’s quick-witted and ferociously loyal, but the boys aren’t interested. Her gather is one of the town’s best-known bookies and the trouble is, few take kindly to his daughter working on the track.
Enter the rapacious Widow Miller, a former neighbour. She’ll take Rose in hand; but not out of charity. She has her own devious reasons for wanting to manipulate the Bradshaw’s lives.
Guided by Widow Miller, a new, glamorous Rose moves up the social scale. Unfortunately Rose can’t forget the ambitious lad across the street; the one she had idolised all her life.
But then comes World War II, and everything is disrupted. There are shattering consequences for the local men who signed up and for the families left behind. Rose is called upon to risk everything for the man she has always loved, but this in no childhood game or bookie’s gamble: it is life or death.
Paperback, 549 pages. In very good preloved condition with the exception of minor creasing to the spine.