The family
By: Kay Brellend
Publisher: HarperCollins; Harpercollins Reference
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780007358656; 9780007358663; 9780007358670
Subjects: Social conditions; Dysfunctional families; Fiction
Description: They're rough, they're tough, and they're back ... Tilly, Alice and the rest of the Keiver clan are knuckling down to life on one of the toughest and most villainous streets in London. But their world is rocked to its core when someone they thought, and hoped, was dead, turns up like the proverbial bad penny - Jimmy Wild - small time crook and big time bully. Jummy brings his beautiful step-daughter, Faye, and his downtrodden wife, Edie, to live on the street, and while they do their best to scratch out a miserable existence, Jimmy barely lifts a finger to help. What devastating act was so bad that it drove them away from their home in Kent to this hovel? Robert and Steven Wild thought they'd moved on. It was hard enough coming to terms with the death of their mother - and now their abusive father has come crawling back. One thing you can bet on, Jimmy Wild's not returned to start playing happy families.