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A Handful of Happiness Evelyn Hood

A Handful of Happiness By Evelyn Hood

A Handful of Happiness by Evelyn Hood


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Summary

Two heartwrenching sagas in one omnibus edition. The first book follows Jenny Gillespie as she attempts to make a life for herself after the Great War; in the second, a young widow helps out a prostitute in a moment of kindness and finds their fates inextricably intertwined.

A Handful of Happiness Summary

A Handful of Happiness: AND This Time Next Year by Evelyn Hood

A HANDFUL OF HAPPINESS - Like so many in Clydeside's dockland tenements, Jenny Gillespie suffered her share of troubles during the Great War. Firstly her fiance Robert Archer leaves her for England, a new job & another woman. Then, with her brother missing in action, she is forced to put the demands of her reletless family before the prospect of a new beginning at a Glasgow store. Her job in Dalkieth's shipyard is difficult enough but then her ex-fiance returns as both a qualified naval engineer & her new boss & he wants to rekindle their relationship. THIS TIME NEXT YEAR - Young widow Lessie Hamilton is shocked & upset to find she shares her tenement landing with a prostitute. But when Anna McCauley begs Lessie to help disguise the fact that one of her clients has died in her bed, she agrees. Soft-hearted & desperate to buy medicine for her sick toddler she accepts the twenty shillings Anna gives her, promising herself one day to pay it back. But keeping her promise is not easy, & from that day forward the fates of Lessie & her younger brother Davie are inectricably intertwined with Anna's & the family of her deceased client..

About Evelyn Hood

Evelyn Hood was born and brought up in Paisley and now lives in a nearby town with her husband and two sons. She is a former journalist and her published work includes short stories, novels, magazine serials and three one-act plays.

Additional information

GOR002445445
9780751535013
075153501X
A Handful of Happiness: AND This Time Next Year by Evelyn Hood
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
2003-02-06
928
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