TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilsher,Sue
TI  - The Empire girls
SN  - 9780750546508
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Long Preston
PB  - Magna
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Nineteen fifties
KW  - Pregnant women
KW  - Boardinghouses
KW  - Friendship
KW  - Women
KW  - England
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Large type books
N1  - Adult
N2  - A moving story of heartbreak and friendship in 1950s BritainTilbury, 1950s. The Empire is a pub run by Vi, Doris's mother, but when Doris falls pregnant out of marriage, she is kicked out of the house and forced to fend for herself. Desperate to look after her daughter, Doris finds refuge in Southend and takes a job in a factory, hoping for a better life. When she finds herself cast out one night, Doris has nowhere to go but home - back to Tilbury. When Doris falls in with the Windrush immigrants, she finds herself helping one to a new life in Britain. But not everyone is happy with her decision and Doris must decide where her friendships lie.
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