A Child's Voice Calling: a gritty, engrossing and ultimately uplifting London saga that you won’t be able to forget...

Maggie Bennett

2012 mar. · Random House

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Perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Rosie Harris, Nancy Revell and Catherine Cookson, this is the richly moving and powerful story of one girl's struggle to protect her family, come what may, from much loved author Maggie Bennett.

READERS ARE LOVING A CHILD'S VOICE CALLING!
'A great story full of every emotion' -- ***** Reader review
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'Great story, couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review
'[Maggie Bennett] is a real story teller who makes you want to turn each page' -- ***** Reader review
'Maggie Bennett is a brilliant writer' -- ***** Reader review

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SHE'LL NEED TO DO ALL SHE CAN TO SAVE HER FAMILY...AND HERSELF

London, 1900s: Young Mabel Court, child of a hasty marriage and spendthrift parents, has always been a mother to her brothers and sisters.

With poverty never far from the door, the battle to stay respectable is finally lost when the family breaks up in tragic circumstances, and Mabel is thrown upon the dubious mercy of her grandmother, the sinister Mimi Court. Mimi has her own dark secrets and is not all she seems...

When Mimi falls foul of the law and Mabel has to fight for her own survival, faithful Harry Drover of the Salvation Army, in love with Mabel, gets an opportunity to prove his devotion.

Is a happy ending on the cards?

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Maggie Bennett was born in Hampshire. When she left school at eighteen she started general nursing training and, after a year as a staff nurse, she went on to train as a midwife. Her career was interrupted by marriage at thirty-five, and she moved to Manchester where her two daughters were born; she later returned to work as a midwife until her retirement in 1991. Having been an avid reader and scribbler all her life, she took a correspondence course in creative writing after her husband's death in 1983, and started writing articles and short stories. A CHILD'S VOICE CALLING is her first novel.