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Custard Tarts And Broken Hearts by Mary Gibson
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Factory girls fight for their loves, lives and rights in World War I Bermondsey. They call them the custard tarts - the girls who work at Pearce Duff's custard powder factory in Bermondsey before the First World War. Conditions are hard but nothing can quench the spirit of humour and friendship - or the ...Show more
Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts by Mary Gibson
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Factory Girls Ser.
Heartwarming and gritty, the story of a factory girl in Bermondsey through World War 1. They call them custard tarts - the girls who work at the Pearce Duff custard and jelly factory. But now the custard tarts are up in arms, striking for better conditions. Among them is Nellie Clark, trying to hold her ...Show more
Gunner Girls and Fighter Boys by Mary Gibson
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Factory Girls Ser.
London, 1939. As the Blitz hits London, two sisters from Bermondsey find their lives changed out of all recognition. May is known to her family as the homing pigeon because of her uncanny sense of direction. She will need it when a bombing raid destroys nearly everything she holds dear. With her home i ...Show more
Jam and Roses by Mary Gibson
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Three sisters in 1920s Bermondsey struggle to make ends meet and protect their mother from the violence of their father. Milly, the eldest, works in Southwells jam factory. Elsie dreams of a career on the stage, while little Amy runs wild with her friends on the streets. As summer draws to a close, th ...Show more
Jam and Roses by Mary Gibson
$19.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Three sisters are growing up in 1920s Bermondsey - the larder of London - with its bustling docks, its spice mill, tannery and factories. Southwells jam factory is where many of the girls work. And Milly Colman knows she's lucky. At Southwells she can have a laugh with her mates. She's quick and strong ...Show more
Jam and Roses by Mary Gibson
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Factory Girls Ser.
Three sisters in 1920s Bermondsey struggle to make ends meet and protect their mother from the violence of their father. Milly, the eldest, works in Southwells jam factory. Elsie dreams of a career on the stage, while little Amy runs wild with her friends on the streets. As summer draws to a close, they ...Show more
The Bermondsey Bookshop by Mary Gibson
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
'Happiness had never been something she'd looked for. A quiet day with no insults or wallops, that was the best she could imagine.' Kate Goss lives in a dark, freezing cold garret, despised and bullied by her aunt and cousins after the death of her mother. She dreams of being rescued by her handsome fa ...Show more
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