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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Romance > Historical
A new standalone novel from the bestselling author Rosie
Clarke.East End of London Maggie Bailey has not had an easy
childhood. Her father, Michael, always too easy with his fists
after spending the family's rent money down the pub. Just sixteen,
in love and blinded by promises, Maggie sees marriage to handsome
Jack as her great escape. However, she soon finds herself abandoned
with a beautiful baby when Jack disappears. Maggie is forced to
seek a new life away from the East End of London and finds herself
a job at a hotel in Eastbourne. Here she must learn to fend for
herself and also accept a shocking discovery that she was fostered
as a babe and nothing is known of her real parents. Her employer,
Aunt Beth, is kind and her life improves - but Maggie makes one
mistake after another and, eventually, they lead to a terrible
tragedy that will bring her to the point of no return. Will Maggie
ever find true happiness and discover the secret of her birth?
PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED as ALL MY SINS
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