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The Cobbler's Kids
  • Imprint: Arrow

  • Published: 18/04/2019

  • ISBN: 9781787463226

  • Length: 368  Pages

  • RRP: £7.99

The Cobbler's Kids

Rosie Harris

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She must risk it all to keep them safe...
Liverpool 1920s: Michael Quinn the cobbler returns home after the First World War forever changed by his experiences on the front line.

He moves his family from their comfortable home to live over a shop in Liverpool's notorious Scotland Road. Though admired and liked by his customers, behind closed doors he rules his family with a fist of steel.

Fourteen-year-old Vera Quinn longs for a life of her own. But when their mother dies, she must keep house for her father Michael and her brothers, Eddy and young Benny. So begins a life of hardship, until an unexpected series of events leads Vera to discover she is far stronger than she could have ever known…

  • Imprint: Arrow

  • Published: 18/04/2019

  • ISBN: 9781787463226

  • Length: 368  Pages

  • RRP: £7.99


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About the Author

Rosie Harris

Rosie Harris was born in Cardiff and grew up there and in the West Country. After her marriage she lived for some years on Merseyside before moving to Buckinghamshire where she still lives. She has three grown-up children, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren and writes full time.

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