TY  - SOUND
AU  - MacLean,Carol
AU  - Mackie,Lesley
TI  - Elsie's wartime wish
T2  - Kiltie Street girls
SN  - 9781399129695
PY  - 2023///
CY  - Leicester
PB  - Ulverscroft, Magna
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Scotland
KW  - Glasgow
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Families
KW  - Sisters
KW  - Mothers
KW  - Death
KW  - Family secrets
KW  - Life change events
KW  - Domestic fiction
KW  - Audiobooks
N1  - Story Sound CD; Mackie, Lesley; Adult
N2  - Elsie Weir is trying hard to keep her family together. Living in Kiltie Street tenement in Glasgow with her mother and little sister, Jessie, isn't easy - not least because her mother spends most days in a drunken stupor. But life gets harder still when their mother dies suddenly, leaving Jessie and Elsie broken-hearted. The future looks bleak, until their mother's estranged family deigns to take them in. But their relief is short-lived as it becomes clear the Mearns family have taken in the orphan sisters only for appearances, treating them cruelly behind closed doors. When Elsie discovers the devastating secret her mother kept from them, it seems that they may have a lifeline - until that dream too, is cruelly dashed. Now, more than ever, the sisters only have each other. But can Elsie and Jessie find some hope in a life full of heartbreak?
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