Skinny Lizzie [Paperback]

Elizabeth Waite (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 30, 1997

South London, 1932. Times are hard for ten-year old Lizzie Collins and her family. With her father dead, it is up to her mother, grandmother and aunt to scrimp and save to rear Lizzie and her three siblings. But the whole family is blessed with the indomitable Cockney spirit- and in particular the physically frail but strong-willed and intelligent Lizzie. So it is only her strong-willed instinct for survival that sees Lizzie through the snobbish school to which she wins a scholarship, through the life-threatening horrors of consumption, and through the dark clouds of impending war. After school and a stint as a butcher's clerk, she goes to work as a bus conductress and, through hard work and inhertiance she manages to save enough to invest in a property. And then fortune smiles on her in the game of love. Happily married after the war to Charlie Wilson, she relishes the prospect of a now secure future with her family. But Charlie has other ideas. Ideas that will take Lizzie to a lonely life in Devon, to the challenges of a new career, and away from her beloved London.

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Editorial Reviews

Review

'A natural, with a great sense of place.' BERYL KINGSTON --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Elizabeth Waite was born in Tooting and lived there until she was thirty-four years old. During the war she worked as a bus conductress at Merton Garage. In 1956 she and her husband moved to Devon and bought their first guesthouse, and has since retired. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Imprint unknown (June 30, 1997)
• ISBN-10: 075152252X
• ISBN-13: 978-0751522525