Mother's Boy  -  Patrick Gale

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KORTE INHOUD

Laura, an impoverished Cornish girl, meets her husband when they are both in service in Teignmouth in 1916. They have a baby, Charles, but Laura's husband returns home from the trenches a damaged man, already ill with the tuberculosis that will soon leave her a widow. In a small, class-obsessed town she raises her boy alone, working as a laundress, and gradually becomes aware that he is some kind of genius. As an intensely private young man, Charles signs up for the navy with the new rank of coder. His esca...
2022 Taal: Engels zie alle details...

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Fictie > Historische fictie >> Moderne Tijd (1500 - heden)

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2022 Uitgever: Headline Publishing Group 406 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 147225743X ISBN-13: 9781472257437