The Reluctant Sinner [electronic resource]
Tate, June2015
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This is an enthralling saga of rags-to-riches on the eve of the First World War. September, 1914. Eighteen-year-old Daisy Gilbert is the star seamstress at Mrs Evans' prestigious gown shop in Southampton. Hard-working and well-liked by customers, she has also started to take on a few private clients to supplement her family's meagre finances. Daisy's ambition, ultimately, is not to marry her sweetheart, Jack, who works at the docks, but to set up her own dressmaking business. When her beloved father, ill with TB, is advised a stay at a private nursing-home, Daisy determines that she will find the money to pay for it. So a suggestion from one of her clients, the flamboyant Mrs Cummings, that she should work evenings as a waitress at the Solent Club, one of the town's upmarket brothels, is tempting. Though her mother is horrified, Daisy takes up the offer, reassured that she will only be working behind the bar. Young, innocent and beautiful, Daisy proves popular with the Club's clientele. But with success come further temptations, and danger too from some of the town's less-reputable inhabitants. Will Daisy be able to care for her father, and preserve her own virtue?
Main title:
The Reluctant Sinner [electronic resource] / June Tate
Author:
Tate, June, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Allison & Busby, 2015
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
June Tate was born in Southampton to a seafaring family before the Second World War. She trained as a hairdresser and spent several years working on cruise ships including the Queen Mary and then the Mauritania, meeting Hollywood actors and VIPs on her travels. After her marriage she lived in Sussex and Hampshire before moving to Estoril in Portugal. Now a widow, she has returned to Sussex and has two adult daughters. She was the chair of the West Sussex Writers for three years.
ISBN:
9780749018887
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English
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2769407
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