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Maggie
A gripping saga set in the swinging sixties
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Pub Date
1 May 2015
| Archive Date
2 Mar 2015
Description
1960s. Maggie Wheaton’s life is almost perfect. Confident, bright and
popular, she lives with her loving, wealthy parents in a close-knit
Cambridgeshire village. But, just days after her sixteenth birthday, her world
falls apart: an accident kills both her parents, and then she suffers the
ultimate betrayal when she learns a life-changing family secret. Maggie has no choice but to go and live with her appointed guardian, Ruby
Riordan, in the seaside town of Southend, where she sets out on a deliberate
path of self-destruction. Will Ruby be able to save her from herself, or is it
all too little too late?
1960s. Maggie Wheaton’s life is almost perfect. Confident, bright and popular, she lives with her loving, wealthy parents in a close-knit Cambridgeshire village. But, just days after her sixteenth...
Description
1960s. Maggie Wheaton’s life is almost perfect. Confident, bright and
popular, she lives with her loving, wealthy parents in a close-knit
Cambridgeshire village. But, just days after her sixteenth birthday, her world
falls apart: an accident kills both her parents, and then she suffers the
ultimate betrayal when she learns a life-changing family secret. Maggie has no choice but to go and live with her appointed guardian, Ruby
Riordan, in the seaside town of Southend, where she sets out on a deliberate
path of self-destruction. Will Ruby be able to save her from herself, or is it
all too little too late?
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Available Editions
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9780727884763 |
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Additional Information
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9780727884763 |
| PRICE |
$28.95 (USD)
|
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Maggie Wheaton has a perfectly happy life with her parents in the 1960s. Then just before she turns 16, her parents are killed in an accident and she learns her whole life has been built on lies. Now she has no choice but to go to Southend to live with her guardian, Ruby. Maggie refuses to see all the opportunities she has and sets out to systematically destroy herself. Does Ruby have the ability to reach her in time?
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Preview to be published in the May 2015 issue of the HNR magazine.
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