Maggie - Hardcover

Kennedy, Lena

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0709204213 ISBN 13: 9780709204213

Publisher: Paddington Press ; distributed by Grosset & Dunlap, 1979

Synopsis

Born in the rough heart of London's East End, like a resilient city flower struggling toward the meager sun, Maggie kept on......through the death of her beloved father, her cherished marriage to a wayward husband of great tenderness and sudden brutality, the solitary fight to raise her four sons and the birth of her "coffee-colored baby," Maggie kept on......through poverty, the Depression, the Blackshirt Marches, the onslaught of World War II and its lonely aftermath, Maggie kept on......through four teeming decades touched by passion and tragedy, warmed by the sound of her own brave laughter, Maggie kept on, until -- like a golden promise bought with tears and trouble -- life gave her the happiness she earned.

About this title

About the Author

Lena Kennedy lived all her life in the East End of London and wrote with great energy about the people and times she knew there. She was 67 before her first novel, MAGGIE, was accepted for publication. Since then her bestselling novels have shown her to be among the finest and best loved of contemporary novelists. She died in August 1986.

Review

A remarkable story and a remarkable book―Daily Express

So real it feels as if someone you love is telling her own story―Sun

A story-telling tour de force. Sentimental, romantic and very saleable, this will appeal to every reader who adored The Thorn Birds―Publishers Weekly

Edition details

• Publisher: Paddington Press ; distributed by Grosset & Dunlap
• Publication date: 1979
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0709204213
• ISBN 13: 9780709204213
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2