A Child Of Her Time: a beautifully moving coming of age saga you won’t be able to put down

Maggie Bennett

Oct 2011 · Random House

About this ebook

From the pen of much loved author Maggie Bennett comes this engrossing and emotional story of prejudice, passion and one woman's struggle to fight for what she wants in life. Perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Rosie Harris, Nancy Revell and Catherine Cookson.

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HAS SHE THE STRENGTH TO FIGHT FOR THE LIFE SHE'S ALWAYS YEARNED FOR?

Phyllis Bird is twenty - five, a teacher, and still living with her parents in a quiet Hampshire village. With so many young men lost in the Great War, her future is without hope until she is offered the position of nursery maid in the London home of acclaimed playwright Harold Berridge. Desperate to break out of her mundane existence, she decides to take it up.

Befriended by the actress Maud Ling and thrown into the glamorous world of the cinema, Phyllis falls passionately in love with Maud's younger brother Teddy. But Teddy's heart lies elsewhere.
Things go from bad to worse when tragedy strikes the Berridge household, and a heartbroken Phyllis is forced to leave.

Six months later, when Phyllis has started to rebuild her life, her world is turned upside down once more when she is invited to a party at Maud Ling's film studios.

For there she falls under the spell of the charming but devious American actor Denver Towers, with disastrous consequences...

About the author

Maggie Bennett was born in Hampshire. She left school at eighteen and started general nursing training and, after a year as a staff nurse, she went on to train as a midwife. She married at thirty-five, and moved to Manchester where her two daughters were born; she later returned to work as a midwife until her retirement in 1991. She took a correspondence course in creative writing after her husband's death in 1983, and started writing articles and short stories. Her first novel, A Child's Voice Calling, was published in 2002, followed by A Child at the Door and A Carriage for the Midwife in 2003.