Angela Young explore les complexités profondes des relations, se concentrant en particulier sur les ruptures de communication entre parents et enfants, et les défis auxquels sont confrontés les amants. Son écriture est imprégnée d'un profond amour pour la narration, offrant aux lecteurs une chaleur narrative qui rend son travail agréable. À travers des thèmes tels que l'espoir et la restauration de la confiance, Young démontre comment les histoires peuvent nous aider à naviguer dans nos vies intérieures complexes et souligne le pouvoir guérisseur de l'expression de l'amour. Sa prose est célébrée pour sa beauté et sa capacité à captiver l'imagination.
The story follows Magdalene, or Magda, as she escapes the constraints of her small village life in search of acceptance and adventure. Joining a traveling troupe of performers, she discovers the power of deep friendships and the excitement of new experiences, ultimately revealing the possibilities beyond her previous existence. This journey of self-discovery highlights themes of freedom, connection, and the pursuit of one's dreams.
Maureen Cooke is an ordinary teenager growing up in the 1960's - not that it's particularly swinging when you live above a pub on the Thames estuary. OK, Gravesend might not have the same ring to it as the King's Road, but at least you can dream...The only child of Cyril and Florrie Cooke, esteemed landlord and landlady of The Victory, Maureen spends her formative years amid the smoke and clamour of a typical 'local', mixing with colourful characters for whom the miniskirt, free love, psychedelia and 'immigrants' are about as welcome as a wet summer.But Cyril and Florrie are workaholics and have little time for their daughter. Instead Nanna Dot and Grandad Bert bring her up as if she was their own child. Maureen loves them too - as if they were her own parents. So why hadn't her real parents made her feel that way?When you're a young woman desperate to get out, meet boys and have fun, being cooped up feels like a life sentence. Just as you think Maureen can never escape, something happens that convinces her she has to go. But will she succeed?Hollow Victory tells it as it is - or was, forty-odd years ago when young people were taking over the world and the 'older generation' watched from the side lines in bemused silence.
As Ernest Pridmore stepped forward to receive the George Medal from King George VI, his life flashed before his eyes. Raised by his bootstraps in London's East End, he knew what survival meant. Cyprus-on-Thames wasn't a place for the faint-hearted.