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*HISTORICAL FICTION*

 

A captivating novel about sisters, faded memories and long-hidden secrets spanning three generations.

 

At the height of Britain's General Strike in 1926 a red double-decker bus driven by a volunteer crashes into a low bridge in West London.

 

Almost eighty years later Jennifer Denzel reveals on daytime television that as a teenager she'd found her sister Charlotte hanging by a school tie in their bedroom. But Charlotte can't believe her ears -- it was, she protests, Jennifer who tried to commit suicide all those years ago.

 

Their grandmother Bertha dreams of a distant time: of a young man she met at a Socialist rally, an unexpected wedding and of a sister, long dead. Meanwhile her daughter, Deirdre, remembers a night during the War forty years earlier, when a V-2 rocket destroyed an entire street, and when she made a shocking discovery.

 

Brimming with vivid detail of Londom past and present, The Past and Other Lies is full of warmth, atmosphere, subtle wit and exquisite surprises.

The Past and Other Lies ~ Maggie Joel

SKU: 9781741967845
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  • Series --
    Pages 382
    Size 128mm x 198mm
    Binding Paperback
    Pre-Loved Reason Second hand

     

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