Magda's daughter
By: Catrin Collier
Publisher: Orion; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780752885858; 9780752885865
Subjects: World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924; Children; World War, 1939-1945; Fiction
Description: Family saga.
Table of contents: title: 18188373; title: Want to Read; title: saving…; title: saving…; title: saving…; title: saving…; title: saving…; title: Rate this book; title: 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars; title: Preview; title: Magda's Daughter; title: (Hearts of Gold #9); title: by; title: Catrin Collier (Goodreads Author); title: 4.33   ·   Rating details ·   216 ratings  ·   14 reviews; title: Stateless and destitute after the Second World War, Magda Janek settles in the Welsh town of Pontypridd, in the hope of building a new life for herself and her baby daughter, Helena. All Magda has to give Helena are the ambitions she had once cherished for herself; dreams cruelly snatched from her by the war and its terrible aftermath. But 1960s Pontypridd is a place of opportunity - at twenty-one, Magda's daughter has beauty, confidence and prospects beyond even her mother's wildest imaginings. With a university degree behind her, a coveted teaching post in her old Grammar school, and marriage to the love of her life, Dr Eddie John, the son of an old Pontypridd family to look forward to, Helena couldn't be happier.; title: Until tragedy strikes. A tragedy that robs Helena of the only family she has ever known and everything she has ever believed in; Helena uncovers a bitter secret, so explosive that her mother carried it to the grave... (less)