Autumn Alley (Charnwood Library) [Large Print] [Hardcover]

Lena Kennedy (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 544 pages
• Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print (June 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0708981941
• ISBN-13: 978-0708981948
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,759,303 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A n excellent novel set at turn of the century London, July 19, 1999

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Chuck Pleasant "chuckp" (North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Autumn Alley (Hardcover)

This is the story of Tim an Irish labourer, his slow friend Dandy and their wifes and families living in a gaslit cobbled alley at the beggining of 1900. Read about Maud, Dandies loud American wife her beloved son, who goes off to fight in the first world war and tearaway daughter Colleen. Discover the dark secret the Brown twins accross the alley share, and their strange sister Ellen. This is an excellent book if you like to get the feel of old London and life before the Great War.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A taste of real life during WWII, July 22, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Autumn Alley (Hardcover)

This book is set in an alley in a poor sections of London and allows you to become part of the lives of it's inhabitants. All of the residents come from different races, colors and creeds and how they share their lives through joy, pain, politics, society and WWII.