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    Title
    A Mother's Journey
    Authors and contributors
    By (author) June Hampson
    Physical properties
    Format: Paperback
    Number of pages: 336
    Width: 153 mm
    Height: 234 mm
    Thickness: 25 mm
    Weight: 431 g
    Audience
    General/trade
    Language
    English
    ISBN
    ISBN 13: 9781409133704
    ISBN 10: 1409133702
    Classifications
    LC classification: PS
    BISAC category code: FIC045000
    BISAC category code: FAM032000
    BISAC category code: FAM019000
    Nielsen BookScan Product Class: F2.5
    Edition statement
    Trade paperback
    Publisher
    Orion Publishing Co
    Imprint name
    Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
    Publication date
    07 March 2012
    Publication City/Country
    London/GB
    Biographical note
    June Hampson was born in Gosport, Hampshire, where she still lives. She has had a variety of jobs including waitress, fruit picker, barmaid, shop assistant and market trader selling second-hand books. She is the author of the much-loved Daisy Lane series.
    Promotional headline
    A mother's love knows no bounds...
    Main description
    Gosport, 1941. Fourteen-year-old Vera has led a sheltered life with her overbearing, religious mother and older sister. But her world is turned upside down with the arrival of the Lovell family on her street. Vera quickly befriends the daughter, Angela, an impulsive, worldly young woman who opens Vera's eyes to what she has been missing. But Vera, unaware of the effect she has on men, invites the unwanted attention of Angela's father, with devastating consequences. Outraged at the news that her teenage daughter is pregnant, Vera is sent to a home for wayward girls. After giving birth to a baby boy, Vera manages to escape the brutality of the institution, only to end up homeless. Alone and struggling to make ends meet, Vera is determined to give her son a better life, at any cost. But just as their fortunes seem to change for the better, everything Vera has worked for is threatened. June Hampson brings heartbreak, warmth, and humor to this compelling tale of family tragedy and a young mother's fight for her son.
    Description for sales people
    TRUST NOBODY sold 20,000 copies in trade.
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    Gosport, 1941. Fourteen-year-old Vera has led a sheltered life with her overbearing, religious mother and older sister. But her world is turned upside down with the arrival of the Lovell family on her street. Vera quickly befriends the daughter, Angela, an impulsive young woman who opens Vera's eyes to what she has been missing. But Vera, unaware of the effect she has on men, invites the unwanted attention of Angela's father, with devastating consequences. Outraged at the news that her teenage daughter is pregnant, Vera is sent to a home for wayward girls, leaving behind everything she has ever known. After giving birth to a baby boy, Vera manages to escape the brutality of the institution, only to end up homeless. Alone and struggling to make ends meet, Vera is determined to give her son a better life - at any cost. But just as their fortunes seem to change for the better, everything Vera has worked for is threatened. And then she is faced with the toughest decision a mother could ever make... ISBN: 978 1 4091 3370 4 £12.99