Carrie of Culver Road by Dee Williams

Carrie of Culver Road by Dee Williams

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A touching story of a woman's struggle to create a true home for her young family in the heart of the East End

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Carrie of Culver Road by Dee Williams

As a little girl, brought up in an orphanage, Caroline Parker had always been told that Dept Ford was the place her disgraced mother had come from. So when years later her husband dies, leaving her penniless and with three young children to support, Caroline's first thought is to head for the place she has envisaged as home: Dept Ford. But to her horror, she finds that Dept Ford is not the country village she'd imagined, but in the middle of London, a huge, teeming city the likes of which she's never seen. Luckily a kindly passer-by takes pity on her weary children and puts them on the tram to a place where she might find lodgings which, as it turns out, is in Rotherhithe, not Deptford. And so it is Culver Road that becomes her true home, where Carrie - as her neighbours call her - and her family, helped out by the irrepressible Flo and her soft-hearted docker husband Alf, find themselves battling through times both good and bad. And it is in Culver Road that Carrie meets Jim, the enigmatic sailor who is to change her life ...
Dee Williams was born and brought up in Rotherhithe in East London where her father worked as a stevedore in Surrey Docks. Dee left school at fourteen, met her husband at sixteen and was married at twenty. After living abroad for some years, Dee and her husband moved to Hampshire, close to the rest of her family.
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ISBN 13 9780747236078
ISBN 10 0747236070
Title Carrie of Culver Road
Author Dee Williams
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Headline Publishing Group
Year published 1992-02-13
Number of pages 480
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.