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When My Ship Comes In Sue Wilsher

When My Ship Comes In By Sue Wilsher

When My Ship Comes In by Sue Wilsher


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Summary

A dramatic and emotional saga set in 1950s Essex from a great new voice

When My Ship Comes In Summary

When My Ship Comes In: A powerful, gripping saga of family, love and hope by Sue Wilsher

If you love Call The Midwife, you won't be able to resist this heartwrenching emotional saga set in 1950s Essex.

Keep the family together, that's what her old mum always said. Put up and shut up. And that's what everyone else did around there.

Essex, 1959. Flo earns her money as a scrubber, cleaning the cruise ships and dreaming of a day when she might sail away from her life in the Dwellings, the squalid tenements of Tilbury docks. Then the Blundell family are evicted from their home.

Fred, Flo's husband, finds work at Monday's, a utopian factory town. Suddenly, it seems like everything is on the up for Flo Blundell and her children. Even Jeanie, Flo's sulking teenage daughter, seems to be thawing a little in her shiny new surroundings.

But when Flo's abusive husband Fred starts drinking again, he jeopardises the family's chance to escape poverty for good.

Flo is faced with a terrible decision. Must she fight to keep her family together? Or could she strive for the life of her dreams - the kind of life she could have when her ship comes in?

When My Ship Comes In Reviews

Packed with drama, dark humour and shocking truths about life for working class women nearly 60 years ago, When My Ship Comes In is a compelling first novel, a gritty page-turner... Wilsher has produced a remarkable debut, a gritty, rollercoaster story of love and loss, hardship and hope, family and friendship and an eye-opening reality check for a new generation of women for whom such limited options in life are now, in the main, just a part of history. Her evocation of a past era, with its struggles and stresses, and her charismatic cast of assorted characters - from lovable Flo to her more complex daughter Jeanie - are beautifully portrayed and make this a must-read for all women's fiction fans, and for book clubs and discussion groups everywhere. -- Pam Norfolk * Lancashire Evening Post *

About Sue Wilsher

Sue Wilsher grew up in South Essex near a shoe factory and the Thames estuary. The shoe company housed its workers, including Sue's grandparents and mother. Sue based her debut novel, When My Ship Comes In, on the history of the area. She now lives in Kent with her husband and two children.

Additional information

GOR008084074
9780751564600
0751564605
When My Ship Comes In: A powerful, gripping saga of family, love and hope by Sue Wilsher
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Little, Brown Book Group
2017-04-06
384
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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