The Lonely Shore - Frances Paige Reviews
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Newest Review: ... and show she is more advance than the time's she lives in? I was quite surprised by how much I enjoyed this particular book, ... more
... being one of the one's I let my kids pick for me from my local library sale last year, I didn't even realise I had it!
The character of Sarah was meant to show how women were supposed to be in the 20's, just of the cusp of taking control of their own lives, but still expected to get back home in time for their husbands arrival from work (if they were indeed lucky enough to still have a job!).
Unfortunately all Sarah managed to do was antagonise me as I read her so called story.
She is written as a reasonably intell...more
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The book I will now review is - "The lonely shore by Frances Paige". Sarah Lane is shy and timid, the compete opposite to her elder sister Mary, who is vivacious and seemingly care free. Sarah woks in a sew shop attached to an up market designer clothes shop, where all the rich and fashionable women shop, and it seems that Sarah has found her calling. That is until the day the girls lose both of there parents to an epidemic of flu and influenza, leaving a reasonably young Sarah and Mary, now as her guardian and to intents and purposes, Mum. And this is how it goes on for some years, though now the war has finished, ... Read the complete review
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