When my ship comes in
Wilsher, Sue2016
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Essex, 1959. Flo earns her money as a scrubber, cleaning the cruise ships and dreaming of a day when she might sail away from her life in the Dwellings, the squalid tenements of Tilbury docks. Then the Blundell family are evicted from their home. Fred, Flo's husband, finds work at Monday's, a utopian factory town. Suddenly, it seems like everything is on the up for Flo Blundell and her children. Even Jeanie, Flo's sulking teenage daughter, seems to be thawing a little in her shiny new surroundings. But when Flo's abusive husband Fred starts drinking again, he jeopardises the family's chance to escape poverty for good. Then he humiliates the company in a charity football match with West Ham United, and he is fired. The Blundells are cast out of their new-found home. Flo is faced with a terrible decision. Must she fight to keep her family together? Or could she strive for the life of her dreams?
Main title:
When my ship comes in / Sue Wilsher.
Author:
Wilsher, Sue, author
Imprint:
London : Sphere, 2016.
Collation:
viii, 375 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9780751564587 (hbk)
Dewey class:
823.92GF
LC class:
PR6123
Local class:
FTFICFAF
Language:
English
BRN:
1654756
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