About the Author
Dee Williams was born and brought up in Rotherhithe in East London where her father worked as a stevedore in Surrey Docks. Dee left school at fourteen, met her husband at sixteen and was married at twenty. After living abroad for some years, Dee and her husband moved to Hampshire, close to the rest of her family.
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Depression-era struggles are magnified when a good-for-nothing husband abandons his pregnant wife and two children. Fellow ghetto-dwellers and the police assist in their struggle to survive. Roe Kendall does an especially good job with the lead and the other women's parts. However, her rendering of the two young male leads makes it difficult to differentiate between them. Still, she narrates about a dozen different characters with poise, providing listeners with a heartwarming story. A.G.H. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine--
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