Away to the Woods

Literature & Fiction

Lena Kennedy

British & Irish

Little,Brown

Nelly Kelly

Genre Fiction

Macdonald

Susan

Little,Brown & Company

Down Our Street

Macdonald & Co. Ltd.

Raised in Stepney, the heart of London's East End, Maggie Riley is the only child of an Irish widower. When she becomes pregnant at the age of fifteen she is delighted, for it means she has captured her beloved Jim Burns. But life is a constant struggle—to bring up her four sons, to cope with a part-time husband, to "better herself." And that struggle is set against critical events of the era: the Depression, the Blackshirt marches, and the devastation of World War II and its aftermath. With the skill of a natural storyteller, Lena Kennedy makes us share Maggie's life: we experience Maggie's hardships as she confronts poverty; we feel her grief when she sends her children off during the evacuation; we sympathize with her loneliness through the long years of the war; we share the impressions of her first trip abroad to South Africa and Australia. We rejoice in her triumphs and feel the sorrow of her tragedies.

Maggie

Contemporary

Pocket

<p>Kitty survives her mother's early death, her husband's philandering, the loss of a child, and the privations of World War II to finally achieve her childhood ambition</p>

Kitty

Three generations of families living on Autumn Alley in London struggle to find love and happiness and overcome the turmoil of World War I

Autumn Alley

<p>A resilient Cockney woman of London's East End, pregnant at fifteen, struggles over the next thirty years to better herself, raise her four sons, and cope with her brawling, part-time husband</p>

Romance

Time Warner Paperbacks*

Owen Oliver

A turbulent tale of a young man's growth from innocence to maturity in the harsh world of Victorian England.In the teeming heart of nineteenth-century London, Owen Oliver walks out of his gloomy, unwelcoming lodgings and doesn't stop his travels until he reaches Kent.There, Owen's life is dramatically altered. An orphan, he is adopted by a loving old lady and her roguish amicable son, Tom. With Tom's help, he secures employment in the shipping agency of an old sea captain and his fortunes start to increase.But Owen is not content. All around him he sees a widening gap between the comfortable middle classes and the helpless destitution of the poor. He is horrified by the plight of the thin and hungry and the evils of child labour.So when he takes the matter into his own hands and rescues a beautiful ragged child with haunting blue eyes and long golden hair, his fate is sealed . . .

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Books by Lena Kennedy