Sins of the father
Neale, Kitty2011
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Left to raise eight siblings after her mother's death, 17-year-old Emma Chambers faces a daily battle with hunger and her father's drunken rages. Until she is offered a way out. If she marries landlord Horace Bell - twenty years her senior - Emma can swap abject poverty for comfort.But Horace soon reveals his true, sadistic colours. Emma is thankful when he eventually abandons her - until she realises she is again penniless and in peril. A chance meeting plants an idea in her mind. All her life, men have taken advantage of her. Now it's time to turn the tables.Years later, and Emma has built up a successful business on South London's meanest streets. But then tragedy strikes - and it becomes clear that someone has been watching Emma, intent on revenge.
Main title:
Sins of the father / Kitty Neale.
Author:
Edition:
Pbk. ed.
Imprint:
London : Avon, 2011.
Collation:
xii, 577 p. ; 20 cm.
ISBN:
9781847563491 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.92
Language:
English
BRN:
317739