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Jeanne Whitmee Omnibus
In Thursday's Child, Fleur Sylvester is a mixed-race baby abandoned by her middle-class mother and would-be rock star father and brought up surrounded by her grandparent's love in London's East End. But when they die, her life is changed completely. At only nineteen, Fleur is left with nothing and with no real hope of finding her mother she starts a new life. Then one day she is brought face to face with the woman who abandoned her as a baby and appeared never to give her another thought: her loving mother... The Lost Daughters is the story of Cathy Oldham and Rosalind Blair who meet as children in post-war London. Cathy's beloved father dies and leaves her in the care of her godfather, Gerald Cavelle the glamorous concert pianist whom she later marries. Yet still the security she craves eludes her. Ros, too has troubles. Her hard-won career in hotel management is threatened by her mother's domineering ways. An unexpected reunion with eachother gives them both the impetus to break free and they enter the hazardous world of business together - and start to become independent women.
This Year, Next Year
Maryan Brown, born in 1915 to a widow, becomes a machinist in a Hackney clothing factory on leaving school. Although she has a daughter by the factory owner's son, she nevertheless marries her steady boyfriend, who is then killed in the Spanish Civil War. By the author of Oranges and Lemons.
Jeane Whitmee Omnibus
ORANGES AND LEMONS - Evacuated from the turmoil of war-torn London, young Shirley Rayner finds herself billeted at the home of Tony and Leonie Darrent, stars of the West End stage and screen - a far cry from her humble background as the illegitimate daughter of an East End cinema usherette. At first the transition is a difficult one but her determination gives her the courage to win through, finding not only her true self, but also a lasting love... THIS YEAR, NEXT YEAR - Realising the hopelessness of her love for her employer's only son, Maryan Brown decides to secure her unborn child's future by marrying her childhood weetheart. She determines that her daughter will have the life she deserves but war separates them and when they are reunited they are strangers. From despair and tragedy comes a new understanding between them - and for Amy, true love where she least expected it...
Jeanne Whitmee Omnibus a Thursday's Child and the Lost Daughters
A two-novel omnibus edition. In Thursday's Child, 19-year-old Fleur is left with nothing when the grandparents who raised her die. Then she is brought face to face with the mother who abandoned her. In The Lost Daughters, friends Cathy and Ros enter the business world in post-war London.
Thursday's Child
Fleur Sylvester, of mixed race, is abandoned by her middle-class mother and would-be rock star father and brought up by her grandparents. But on their death her life changes completely. Aged only nineteen, Fleur is left with nothing but the scrap of paper bearing her mother's last address, surely many years out of date.
Give Me Tomorrow
The Davies family is as dysfunctional as they come. When Frank marries a younger woman, Susan, his ten-year-old daughter Louise feels pushed out, and even more so when baby Karen arrives. Neither her father's outrageous spoiling of her, nor the drama school to which she is sent to pursue her dream, is enough to distract Louise from the void left by her absent mother. Now, years later, with her father gone, Louise feels even more the odd one out. Obsessed with finding her birth mother, she distances herself from her family, hiding the truth of her flailing acting career from them, and spitefully makes trouble for Karen whenever the opportunity arises. Karen has her own family problems to deal with - she wants to return to her career as a teacher after baby Peter is born, but her husband Simon has other ideas. Susan longs to see her girls reconciled and to pick up the threads of her own life again. This generational family drama is a funny and poignant study of three headstrong women, all pulling in opposite directions. Eventually each one, in her own way, is shown the path to happiness. But will they take it?
Summer Snow
For Mary Snow the end of the war brought unwelcome changes. Her husband, Paul, announced his intention of returning to his acting career but without the encumbrances of a wife and child. Returning to her hometown with her small daughter, Mary finds picking up the threads of her pre-war life an arduous challenge.
