Them Roper Girls - Bailey, David G
20,99 €
inkl. MwSt.

Versandfertig in 1-2 Wochen
  • Broschiertes Buch

They were beauties all right, them Roper girls - but sometimes even four aces don't make a winning hand. In an unsettled household in the 1950s, how will the sisters come up from their shipwrecked childhood? Facing issues including domestic and sexual abuse, physical and mental illness, they struggle to offer their own children a better legacy. Follow them over sixty years to see if all the siblings make it safely to shore. Angela: Whatever rumours you may have heard, I never knew Dad say my third sister Karen wasn't his. Janet: She had promised that on her sixteenth birthday she would finally…mehr

Andere Kunden interessierten sich auch für
Produktbeschreibung
They were beauties all right, them Roper girls - but sometimes even four aces don't make a winning hand. In an unsettled household in the 1950s, how will the sisters come up from their shipwrecked childhood? Facing issues including domestic and sexual abuse, physical and mental illness, they struggle to offer their own children a better legacy. Follow them over sixty years to see if all the siblings make it safely to shore. Angela: Whatever rumours you may have heard, I never knew Dad say my third sister Karen wasn't his. Janet: She had promised that on her sixteenth birthday she would finally let him go all the way. Lucy: I think Jan was away at a Guides' camp when I got run over. Karen: Don't think I'll be rambling on like Ange ... I wouldn't want to leave you only her version, talk about unreliable memoirs. Visit www.davidgbailey.com and author Facebook page at bit.ly/D-G-B
Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Autorenporträt
DAVID G BAILEY's debut publication in 2021 was 'Seventeen', a football fantasy adventure novel aimed at and beyond young adults. 'Them Roper Girls' (2022) returned to a world more recognisably our own, tracing in their own voices the lives of four sisters over more than sixty years from their 1950s childhood. A husband of a Roper sister takes centre stage in 'Them Feltwell Boys' (2023). With the same gritty realism and sometimes dark humour found in its predecessor, this follows Ray Roden's crude attempts at teenage love in counterpoint to his cynical womanising as an adult. 'The Sunny Side of the House' (2024) is a first venture into non-fiction in another projected series, 'When Life Gives You Strawberries - Memories of a Fenland Boy'. The origin story of 'Seventeen' appears within the clear-eyed narrative of a 1960s boyhood in East Anglia, where both David's contemporary novels are partly set. He currently lives in the Midlands.To read more of and about David's work, including a quarterly newsletter and new content daily comprising extracts from diaries and other writing over more than fifty years, visit his website www.davidgbailey.com.