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The palace of strange girls

Title
The palace of strange girls / Sallie Day.
Author
Day, Sallie.
Publication
London : HarperPress, 2008.

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Description
353 pages; 23 cm
Summary
Blackpool, 1959. The Singleton family is on holiday. For seven-year-old Beth this means avoiding her mother Ruth's supervision. Her sixteen-year-old sister Helen, meanwhile, has befriended a waitress whose fun-loving ways hint at a life beyond Ruth's strict rules. But Ruth's husband, Jack, a foreman of the local cotton mill, is caught between unions and owners whose cost-cutting measures threaten an entire way of life. When a letter arrives from Crete, a secret re-emerges from the rubble of Jack's wartime past that could destroy his marriage. Over the holiday week, all four Singletons must struggle to find their place in a shifting world.
Subject
  • Parent and child > Fiction
  • Manners and customs
  • Parent and child
  • Blackpool (England) > Social life and customs > Fiction
  • England > Blackpool
Genre/Form
  • Domestic fiction.
  • Fiction.
ISBN
  • 9780007269396
  • 0007269390
  • 9780007280346
  • 0007280343
OCLC
  • ocn190776956
  • 190776956
  • SCSB-9783671
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library