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Synopsis
Wednesday's child is full of woe. Wendy Marshall did not choose to be born on a Wednesday but her woe started seven weeks before she left her mother's womb when her father was killed on the Dunkirk beaches. In the coronation year of 1953, Wendy is a twelve-year-old innocent and naïve schoolgirl trying to understand her adolescence. Her best friend is Anne who, with older sisters to keep her informed, provides Wendy with her only enlightenment on bodily changes and sexual matters. It was her stepfather who propelled Wendy's growing up in the worst possible way, by sexually abusing her when she was thirteen. She remains silent, threatened by and frightened of a brutal thrashing that she had witnessed being given to her stepbrother. Will her life always be full of woe? Will she find happiness? This fast flowing story authentically captures the British way of life during the mid-1950s at the start of Queen Elizabeth II's reign in a terrace house in Norwich and a flat in Leicester. It deals with families emerging from the drab ration-book years of the forties and the birth of the television and motor car society. It is gripping, humorous and sad, moving at a lively pace to its unusual end.
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About the Author
Raymond Bliss was born in Leicester and educated at Kibworth Beauchamp Grammar School, and trained as an articled clerk in accountancy. His early life was spend in the Midlands, but in the mid-1980s he moved with his second wife to Cornwall when he took on a new career as a postmaster, and he still does some locum management work today. Creative writing has always been in Raymond's blood, and as a young teenage boy he was writing a regular school classroom magazine. During his years in business in the Midlands he was regularly quoted in the national and local press. He is also a keen bridge player, having won numerous trophies, and has represented Cornwall in league competitions.
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