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The Slum Sisters' Wish
(2021)(The second book in the Victorian Sister Sagas series)
A novel by Emma Hardwick
Two down-trodden sisters from the Angel Meadows hope for a better life, far from the horrors of the slums. Each takes a different path to freedom. Will their plans work?
Anna and Mary Errington are trapped in a vicious circle of poverty with a cruel drunken mother and a sailor father, a loyal family-man always at sea.Both girls risk everything to escape their dismal home life, hoping to set up new futures with loving husbands. Making a desperate string of poor decisions in their bid for freedom, things soon worsen.
A lie from one of the sisters tears the fragile family apart, devastating them all. There will never be a way back to everything they clung to, only a perilous way forward.
Will the sisters finally find love and freedom? Or will they both fail?
Follow these two Salford girls in this heartwarming tale of romance, and experience their struggles and setbacks as they fight for survival in one of Victorian England’s toughest industrial areas.
Genre: Sagas
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