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Life for a woman alone isn’t easy at the turn of the century, especially in the small, gossip-ridden community of the Isle of Wight. And Jane Darwen has more worries than most.
Left when Walter enlists to fight the Boers to manage their seven unruly children and greengrocery and fish shop on Coppins Bridge, Jane steers a tightrope path between scandal and insolvency. From the old Queen’s passing as Osborne and the return of a changed Walter from South Africa, to the loss of her dearest sons; through the horrors of a closer, bitterer war, the daily battles of work and grief, birth and marriage and death, the demands of a family and friends, Jane Darwen and the shop on Coppins Bridge preside over the end – and the beginning – of an era.
Paperback, 558 pages. In very good preloved condition with the exception of light creasing to front cover. Spine is tight and square.