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Ma Polinski's Pockets
(1999)(The second book in the Women on the Tear series)
A novel by Sara Sheridan
Edinburgh is a great big black bastard of a city where there are ghosts of all kinds.
What are the secrets in Ma Polinskis Pockets? To find out, Rachel must leave her comfortable life and take her best friend Nina on a journey through dark family history.
Rachel White is shocked when she inherits £8 million pounds from a stranger. To unravel the mystery of this sudden legacy, she enlists her best friend, Nina. As the girls set out on a quest to unearth the truth, Rachels comfortable life in Edinburgh is turned upside down when she makes a dark discovery about her mothers experiences during WWII.
Will Rachels quest to find the truth set her family free?
Praise for Sara Sheridan and other works:
'...the books are written by proven teenager writers and are fast moving, straightforward and appealing. Inform
in a genre where we usually find polemic, melodrama or worthy-but-predictable tragedy, Sheridan has written a proper, character-driven novel a pessimistic exploration of how ordinary and even good people, once locked into a certain mind-set, can do blatantly evil things yet think them good and right... so well written you never notice the writing Glasgow Herald
Genre: Historical Mystery
What are the secrets in Ma Polinskis Pockets? To find out, Rachel must leave her comfortable life and take her best friend Nina on a journey through dark family history.
Rachel White is shocked when she inherits £8 million pounds from a stranger. To unravel the mystery of this sudden legacy, she enlists her best friend, Nina. As the girls set out on a quest to unearth the truth, Rachels comfortable life in Edinburgh is turned upside down when she makes a dark discovery about her mothers experiences during WWII.
Will Rachels quest to find the truth set her family free?
Praise for Sara Sheridan and other works:
'...the books are written by proven teenager writers and are fast moving, straightforward and appealing. Inform
in a genre where we usually find polemic, melodrama or worthy-but-predictable tragedy, Sheridan has written a proper, character-driven novel a pessimistic exploration of how ordinary and even good people, once locked into a certain mind-set, can do blatantly evil things yet think them good and right... so well written you never notice the writing Glasgow Herald
Genre: Historical Mystery
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