Good Daughters

What's so special about a son? Why doesn't she care about her daughters?'  Mary Hocking brings good humour and sympathy to her depiction of the Fairley sisters growing up in their close-knit West London neighbourhood before, during and after the war. Here, in the first novel of a trilogy, the girls are sheltered in a world whose traditions of hard work and frugality are upheld by their Methodist father, Stanley, and their strong quiet mother, Judith. But, as love comes to Louise and adventures tempt Alice and her friend, unease lurks and terrible rumours travel from Germany - auguries of the catastrophe to come.

Literature & Fiction

Hocking, Mary

Contemporary

Pelham

Look, Stranger

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

Shelf wear to dust jacket, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

WELCOME STRANGERS.

Chatto&Windus

Shelf wear to price clipped dust jacket, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Indifferent heroes

Worn dust jacket has a small hole in the front, page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

An irrelevant woman

Set in a small West Country town, this new novel by the author of the trilogy "Good Daughters", "Indifferent Heroes" and "Welcome Strangers", concerns the family and social difficulties encountered by a newly-arrived vicar to the parish church of St Hilary.

A Particular Place

British & Irish

THE MEETING PLACE

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Good Daughters (U)

Ulverscroft

Indifferent Heroes (U)

As the 1939-1945 war slows to a clumsy halt, a trembling world holds out its arms to welcome peace back home again. Alice Fairley, her friends and her family are surprised to find themselves so unprepared for peacetime. In a way, it's like starting all over again: all the things one was confident about have disappeared or changed shape somehow, while things which were acceptable, or even pleasant, now seem different, dull, irksome. Noisy whispers of spy-rings and foreign conspiracies provoke shockwaves of malice and stinging intolerance. The world has grown up. Quickly, they discover that the battle is not over yet ...persistent spectres of duty and guilt pick their victims indiscriminately.

Welcome Strangers (U)

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