Crooked Pieces

by Sarah Grazebrook

Overview

London, 1905. Maggie’s new position as a maid lifts her from East End poverty and brings her into the world of the suffragettes, in particular the Pankhursts – icons for a generation of women in search of equality and the right to vote. Before long her life takes another exciting turn when she begins ‘walking out’ with a young police officer, Fred Thorpe.

As Maggie becomes drawn into an increasingly militant battle with the authorities, she is torn between her loyalty to the man she loves and her passionate belief in the cause for which she is fighting. Is Maggie prepared to sacrifice her one chance of happiness for the sake of a future she may never see?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780749015565
Publisher:	Allison & Busby, Limited
Publication date:	07/29/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	NOOK Book
Pages:	432
File size:	397 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sarah Grazebrook exchanged a career as a television actress for one as a writer following the birth of her second child. Her first novel, Not Waving, won the Cosmopolitan Fiction Prize and she has written six others. She wrote a monthly column, ‘Notes from the Garret’, for Kent Life for four and a half years and contributes to a variety of satirical radio programmes. Sarah has wide experience of teaching creative writing for the Arvon Foundation and at Macon in France. She now lives in Deal, Kent.

Editorial Reviews

"Grazebrook’s writing has freshness and spontaneity: the effect is of listening to someone talking, a bright, pert conversationalist with a stock of good one-liners and a keen eye for human foibles"

Sunday Telegraph

Grazebrook’s writing has freshness and spontaneity: the effect is of listening to someone talking, a bright, pert conversationalist with a stock of good one-liners and a keen eye for human foibles

From the Publisher

Read More