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The shopkeeper's heartbreak
Hood, Evelyn2026
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Greenock, Scotland, 1900. Widowed Lessie Hamilton lives with her young son and her brother Davie. To make ends meet, Lessie works in the local grocery shop supporting Davie as he works on the docks and attends night school, hoping to become an engineer, much to the scorn of their reformed alcoholic father. With her mother's drinking spiralling, putting their vulnerable younger sister Thomasina at risk, brother Joseph frequently in trouble with the police and sister Edith thinking herself above them all - Lessie has much to contend with. Things begin to look brighter as Lessie receives an inheritance, marries again and has the opportunity to take over the grocery shop. Meanwhile her neighbour Anna McCauley, who has had a colourful life 'entertaining' some high-profile male customer becomes the kept mistress to a wealthy sugar refinery owner. But her old ties to Anna, keep pulling Lessie and Davie back to their less prosperous pasts.
Main title:
The shopkeeper's heartbreak / Evelyn Hood.
Author:
Hood, Evelyn, author
Imprint:
London : Boldwood Books, 2026.
Collation:
384 pages (large print) ; 24 cm
Series title:
Series:
Shopkeepers ; 1
Notes:
Standard print edition originally published: as This time next year. London: Headline, 1992.
ISBN:
9781806003075 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.914
LC class:
PR6058.O537
Local class:
F
Language:
English
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BRN:
4367871
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