The empty hearth /
Neale, Kitty,
The empty hearth / Kitty Neale. - Paperback edition. - 342 pages ; 20 cm.
Millie Pratchett's life is not an easy one. Her dad, coalman Alfie, is a bully, and his vicious temper dominates their small terraced house in Battersea. His teenage children, handsome John and ugly-duckling Millie, have learnt to dodge his moods but Millie lives in fear for her mother, Eileen. When Alfie's tyranny forces Eileen into an impossible position, a crisis erupts. The Pratchetts' old life collapses around them and a new, darker future looms. But people are not always what they seem; could Millie turn out to be far stronger and more resilient than anyone could have imagined?
9781409178774 1409178773
Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Battersea (London, England)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
823.92
The empty hearth / Kitty Neale. - Paperback edition. - 342 pages ; 20 cm.
Millie Pratchett's life is not an easy one. Her dad, coalman Alfie, is a bully, and his vicious temper dominates their small terraced house in Battersea. His teenage children, handsome John and ugly-duckling Millie, have learnt to dodge his moods but Millie lives in fear for her mother, Eileen. When Alfie's tyranny forces Eileen into an impossible position, a crisis erupts. The Pratchetts' old life collapses around them and a new, darker future looms. But people are not always what they seem; could Millie turn out to be far stronger and more resilient than anyone could have imagined?
9781409178774 1409178773
Dysfunctional families--Fiction.
Teenage girls--Fiction.
Battersea (London, England)--Social life and customs--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Bildungsromans.
823.92