Diamonds in the dust
By: Beryl Mattews
Publisher: Windsor
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bath
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9781408414613; 9781408414620
Subjects: Widows; Police; Brothers and sisters; Fiction; Investigation; Missing persons; Social conditions; Large type books; Family sagas
Description: "London, 1920. The three Bentley children are used to fending for themselves. Their widowed mother has been forced to take a night job at Grants clothing factory, and sees them only at breakfast and on Sundays. But at nearly eighteen, and with a job as a housemaid to help make ends meet, Dora is well able to look after her younger siblings, twelve-year-old Tom and little Lily. Then one morning their mother fails to appear for breakfast as usual, and when Dora is told by the gatekeeper at Grants factory that no one by the name of Harriet Bentley has ever worked there, the children grow worried. They know their mother loves them, and cannot believe she would deliberately deceive them. With the help of a neighbour, a former policeman who was badly injured during the War, Dora and her siblings start to investigate."--Jacket.
Notes: Originally published: Sutton: Severn House, 2008.