A Soldier's Girl

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by Maggie Ford


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  Call Nurse Jenny

  Will she ever be her soldier’s sweetheart?

  Jenny has been in love with the handsome and successful Matthew Ward since she was sixteen. Only she was too shy to make her feelings known.

  When Matthew joins the army Jenny is also determined to do her bit for the war effort and becomes a nurse. Her newfound skills give her fresh confidence. However, when they meet again will he be the same man she once loved?

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  A Woman’s Place

  Eveline’s father believes a woman’s place is in the home …

  But when she is accidentally caught up in a suffragette march, it changes her life forever.

  She finds friendships, and even the possibility of love too in the form of the gentlemanly Laurence Jones-Fairbrook. But will she be forced to choose between her family and friends... between duty and love?

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  The Factory Girl

  From rags to riches …

  With the Armistice only a few months passed, times are hard for eighteen-year-old Geraldine Glover. A machinist at Rubins clothing factory in the East End, she dreams of a more glamorous life.

  When she meets Tony Hanford, the young and handsome proprietor of a small jeweller’s shop in Bond Street, Geraldine is propelled into a new world – but it comes at a heavy price …

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  A Girl in Wartime

  There’s no escape from the effects of war …

  It’s June 1914 and young Connie Lovell should be helping with the war effort. Instead, she applies for a job at the London Herald, where she meets the handsome editor Stephen Clayton.

  Nine years her senior, she knows her family won’t approve. She is helplessly drawn to him, and despite a past he won’t talk about, he is undeniably attracted to her. But as the war rages on, will Stephen be forced to enlist, and can their union survive the consequences?

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  A Soldier’s Girl

  In his absence, she will find her strength …

  After a childhood in poverty and leaving school to work at the age of thirteen, life is beginning to look up for Brenda Wilson. Freshly married to her handsome soldier husband, she finds her true vocation in hairdressing.

  However, Brenda is forced to give up her dreams of owning her own salon as Harry is called into service, leaving her to bring up their daughter all by herself …

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  An East End Girl

  Will she ever be anything more than an East End girl?

  Cissy Farmer longs to escape her life in London’s Docklands where times are hard and money is tight. And when she meets the debonair Langley Makepeace, her dream seems within reach.

  But the price of belonging in Langley’s brittle, sophisticated world could be much higher than Cissy ever imagined. Torn between Langley and her gentle childhood sweetheart, Eddie Bennet, she is forced to gamble on her future chance of happiness, a decision that will change her life forever …

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  This ebook is copyright material and must not be copied, reproduced, transferred, distributed, leased, licensed or publicly performed or used in any way except as specifically permitted in writing by the publishers, as allowed under the terms and conditions under which it was purchased or as strictly permitted by applicable copyright law. Any unauthorized distribution or use of this text may be a direct infringement of the author’s and publisher’s rights and those responsible may be liable in law accordingly.

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  Copyright © Maggie Ford 2001

  Extract from An East End Girl copyright © Maggie Ford 2017

  Cover photographs: woman © Head Design; background © Getty Images

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  Maggie Ford has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this Work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988

  This novel is a work of fiction. Names and characters are the product of the author’s imagination and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental

  First published as Brenda’s Place by Judy Piatkus (Publishers) Ltd in 2001

  This edition published by Ebury Press in 2016

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  A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

  ISBN 9780091956295

 

 

 


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