Nelly Kelly: An uplifting tale of grit and determination in the most desperate of circumstances

by Lena Kennedy

Overview

Life never turns out the way you plan . . .

In the turmoil and confusion of London's East End between the wars, young Nelly Kelly soon learns that life may never match her expectations. Forced to keep house for her charming yet autocratic, father, Nelly toils in a sweatshop to keep her family clothed and fed.

But though life is hard, Nelly still has friendship, dancing and her early dreams to cling to. Dreams that slowly crumble as marriage, the war and a lost baby are followed by the heartache of a lost love.

Fortune may crush her proud spirit but when faced with a crisis that will test her courage to the limit, no tragedy can change Nelly Kelly's determination to be her own woman.

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What readers are saying about NELLY KELLY

'Unputdownable' - 5 STARS

'A gripping story' - 5 STARS

'What a great book' - 5 STARS

'Another of Lena Kennedy's books that had be engrossed from the start' - 5 STARS

'Could not put it down' - 5 STARS

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781444767261
Publisher:	Hodder & Stoughton, Ltd.
Publication date:	04/25/2013
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Sales rank:	330,558
File size:	406 KB

About the Author

Lena Kennedy lived all her life in the East End of London and wrote with great energy about the people and times she knew there. She was 67 before her first novel, MAGGIE, was accepted for publication. Since then her bestselling novels have shown her to be among the finest and best loved of contemporary novelists. She died in August 1986