A Sister's Struggle

PRAISE FOR MARY GIBSON:
'Danger, glamour and adventure ... An explosive finale which will have readers frantically turning the pages' The Bookbag.
'A fabulous, fascinating read' Vanessa Feltz.
'This wonderfully descriptive book ... A must-read' OK magazine.

Vorwort

A young girl struggles to keep body and soul together in 1930s London, while her proud but spendthrift widowed father refuses to accept charity.

Autorentext

Mary Gibson is Professor Emerita of History at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA. She is the author of Born to Crime: Cesare Lombroso and the Origins of Biological Criminology (2002) and Prostitution and the State in Italy, 1860-1915 (2nd Edition, 1999).

MARY GIBSON is Professor of History at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate School, City University of New York.

Klappentext

The starving Ruby goes without food to keep her younger brothers fed in thirties Bermondsey, and is eventually forced to go to the Methodist Mission for free food - a decision that splits her family and sets the course of her life.