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Champion Street Market Series
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Putting On
The Style
'The
new series will be greeted with joy by the thousands of women
who enjoy her books.'
'You
can't put a price on Freda Lightfoot's stories from Manchester's
1950s Champion Street Market. They bubble with enough life
and colour to brighten up the dreariest day and they have
characters you can easily take to your heart.' You’ll find life in the raw and bargains galore at Champion Street Market.
ISBN 0 340
89734 1 hardback In 1950s Manchester, folk are just emerging from the shadow of the war. Money is still tight, and the bustling market is a source of tempting bargains - as well as the local gossip. Dena loves her Saturday job at Belle Garside's market cafe, and her ready smile makes her a universal favourite. She is soon in thrall to Belle's two sons; who are good looking, exciting and dangerous. But fate has other plans in store. When her younger brother is killed by a gang of young thugs Dena is taken into care. Later, when she returns to her beloved market, she valiantly tries to rebuild her life. Only when it is far too late does Dena begin to ask herself the terrifying question: has she fallen in love with her brother's killer? ********* |
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ISBN 0 340 89763 8 hardback Fools Fall In Love Second in the Champion Street Market Series
When
Patsy talks her way into a job on their Champion Street market
millinery stall, the Higginson sisters get more than they
bargained for. Coping
with a rebellious teenager is far from easy.
Riddled with insecurities, Patsy’s impudence and chirpy
personality win her enemies as well as new friends.
And her determination to solve the riddle of her own past
soon starts to unravel secrets Annie and Clara would much rather
keep hidden.
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ISBN
978-0-340-89738-6 hardback Third in the Champion Street Market Series Husbands, so demanding of wives and yet so flawed
themselves. Useless lumps the
lot of them,' in Betty’s opinion. Working on her busy flower stall in Champion Street
Market, Betty has lots of opportunities to observe her customers, and to speculate on
their lives. Sam regularly buys bouquets for his wife, Judy, so why does
she always look so worn out and miserable? Leo comes every week for flowers for his mother, but has
never bought so much as a rosebud for his elegant wife. Of course Betty’s own husband went off long ago, so is it
any wonder if she and her daughter, Lynda, have such a dim view of men?
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ISBN 978-0-340-89740-9 hardback Fourth in the Champion Street Market Series Secrets darker than chocolate … Everyone
loves Aunty Dot’s homemade sweets and chocolates. And
everyone loves Aunty Dot: the plump, smiling woman has provided a
loving home for many a troubled child. Lizzie Pringle would do
anything for her foster mother – even taking on local sweet
manufacturer and bully, Cedric Finch. Until she falls for his son, Barney…
Manchester’s Champion Street market is the hub of the lively ‘fifties community. Find out more about the stall-holders and their customers in Putting on the Style and Fools Fall in Love.
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Fifth in the Champion Street Market Series Sisters, sisters, there were never such devoted sisters … Things aren’t quite that simple in the noisy, warm-hearted Bertalone family. Carmina is the glamorous one, the sexy extrovert who has the boys flocking like bees round the honeypot – all except Luc Fabriani, who for some unaccountable reason seems to prefer her sister Gina. Gina is quiet and shy, the apple of her over-protective parents’ eye, and much too young to have a boyfriend. Innocent and naïve, Gina believes her sister when she spreads malicious lies about Luc: what has Carmina got to gain by breaking her sister’s heart? But lies have a habit of being found out, and trapping the liar in a web of deceit, as Carmina is about to discover. Who’s sorry now?
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