Description: Praise for NOBODY'S GIRL: 'This pageturner is a gritty tale of survival.' Tesco magazine. 'Heartbreakingly poignant and joltingly realistic. From the first page the characters and their lives drew me in. It combines wonderfully accurate historical detail with true gritty realism in a book that fans of misery lit won't want to miss.' Annie Groves, author of SOME SUNNY DAY. Praise for Kitty Neale: "A gritty tale" BELLA "Neale makes Cookson's earthiest stories look a little tame." PETERBOROUGH EVENING TELEGRAPH WATERSTONE'S "Don't always be put off by the term "page-turner" -- this book is in no way a pile of slushy nonsense. At its core is family life -- the ups and downs of marriage and the parent/child bond -- ranging from the worst excesses of childhood sexual abuse to a love so dutiful that a mother will conspire to break a young girl's heart with the sole purpose of protecting her son. From Post war London to the Swinging 60s this book is a rare thing indeed. Please read and enjoy."

Description: Emma Chambers has an way out of the poverty-stricken life she lives — but it might just destroy her to take it! The gritty new tale from the bestselling author of NOBODY’S GIRL. DESPERATE! Left to raise eight siblings after her mother’s death, 17-year-old Emma Chambers faces a daily battle with hunger and her father’s drunken rages. Until she is offered a way out. If she marries landlord Horace Bell – twenty years her senior – Emma can swap abject poverty for comfort. DEGRADED! But Horace soon reveals his true, sadistic colours. Emma is thankful when he eventually abandons her – until she realises she is again penniless and in peril. A chance meeting plants an idea in her mind. All her life, men have taken advantage of her. Now it’s time to turn the tables. IN DANGER! Years later, and Emma has built up a successful business on South London’s meanest streets. But then tragedy strikes – and it becomes clear that someone has been watching Emma, intent on revenge!