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Leo's Girl
Headline Publishing Group
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Description for Leo's Girl
paperback. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Peggy Thornton has always felt her middle-class life, living in Highgate Hill, to be rigid and narrow, so when women are urged to help on the home front after the outbreak of the Second World War, she starts training as a conductor on a London Transport bus. Her parents are appalled, but they're not the only ones who make her life difficult. Many of the bus crew haven't adjusted to women from their own class working let alone the likes of Peggy. And, her relationship with Leo, one of the depot's mechanics, serves to create further tensions. It is only ... Read more
Peggy Thornton has always felt her middle-class life, living in Highgate Hill, to be rigid and narrow, so when women are urged to help on the home front after the outbreak of the Second World War, she starts training as a conductor on a London Transport bus. Her parents are appalled, but they're not the only ones who make her life difficult. Many of the bus crew haven't adjusted to women from their own class working let alone the likes of Peggy. And, her relationship with Leo, one of the depot's mechanics, serves to create further tensions. It is only ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780747266525
SKU
KSS0003594
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Headline Publishing Group
Victor Pemberton is a successful radio playwright and TV producer, and has worked with some of the great names of entertainment.
Reviews for Leo's Girl
'Lights down, tucked up snug you can almost hear air raid sirens as Pemberton spins another superb story of London folk during wartime'
Peterborough Evening Telegraph 20010421
Peterborough Evening Telegraph 20010421