Murray Annie - The Narrowboat Girl - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: The Narrowboat Girl by Annie Murray is the story of a young woman's search for freedom and happiness. Young Maryann Nelson is devastated at the loss of her beloved father. But worse is to come when her mother Flo sees an opportunity to better herself and her family in a marriage to the local undertaker Norman Griffin. Though on the surface a caring family man Norman is not at all what he seems as Maryann and her sister Sal soon discover. Unable to turn to their unsympathetic mother for support the girls are left alone with their harrowing secret. But for Sal it is too much to bear The chance of a new life opens up for Maryann when she befriends Joel Bartholomew. Aboard his narrowboat the Esther Jane she finds herself falling in love with life on the canal as she is swept away from Birmingham and all her worries. Until Joel's feelings for Maryann begin to change awakening all the old nightmares that she had thought were long buried and in panic and confusion she takes flight The Narrowboat Girl is followed by sequel Water Gypsies .
Title: The Narrowboat Girl
Author(s): Murray Annie
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Barcode: 9781447272021
Pages: 464 Pages
Publication Date: 5/21/2015
Category: Romance