Jean Jarvis Livres

Jean Jarvis was born in Worksop, Nottinghamshire, a market town in the East Midlands and part of the Portland estate within the Dukeries.Her working life has been spent in schools in Worksop and Sheffield. She lived through the time when Britain was recovering from World War II. It was the time of Rock Around the Clock by Bill Haley & His Comets.She met and married the curate and became his wife and mother of two children.During this time, she met John Betjeman, a friend of her husband. She acquired his fun name, “The Smasher”.Her love of art and music continued throughout her life, and she became a church organist. Her love of painting is a set of fourteen stations of the cross, which was on show for a short time in Derby Cathedral.This is the story of a long and happening life, told in slices.

When both parents left theirhome, the five Wilson kids, three boys and two girls ranging from twenty totwelve years old, were left to fend for themselves. They coped well with somehelp from Youth on Their Own.Trouble started when a group ofrowdies moved in next door; loud parties, drugs, Sarah's illness and abduction,the boys in a car chase, and Deena's encounter with the biggest dog she hadever seen all happened within a short time.At last, the owners of the housenext door returned home, ousted the gang, and began helping the Wilsons solvetheir problems. Tim's scientific experiment was successful, the two familiesbecame like one, and they heard that Mister Wilson might return within a year. The Wilsons had high hopes forthe future, and only wished that other teens on their ownhad as happy an ending as theirs.