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The Shop Girls of Lark Lane

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By: Pam Howes
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A heart-wrenching family saga about the strength of friendship and the costs of war. 

Liverpool, 1945. As the war draws to a close, Alice and Terry Lomax are building a new life with their young daughter Cathy. After years away fighting, Terry is a stranger to his daughter and must work hard to win her trust and love. Alice and old friend Sadie work in the haberdashery of Lewis’s department store, where bomb damage scars the walls and rationing is still in force. 

Though memories of those lost in the war are fresh, Alice and Sadie look forward to the future. But then a tragic accident leaves Alice a widow, and the father of Sadie’s child – a man she hoped never to see again – is back in Liverpool....

©2018 Pam Howes (P)2019 W. F. Howes Ltd Historical Fiction Sagas Genre Fiction Historical 20th Century Contemporary

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I've listened to a number of this author's books, and enjoyed all. This one, however, left me cold in the end.

The ending, I thought, was absurd, a miracle that virtually never happens in real life.

I think this send a bad message to many women out there.

Lovely story, but the ending didn't ring true

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You could retitle this book as “How to Have a Toxic Relationship.” What’s the message here? Ignore all the red flags - so many red flags - and endure all manner of abuse and one day he’ll miraculously change completely and become who you wish he was? Yeah, I heard that loud and clear in this story. And I do mean ALL manner of abuse. Let me count the ways….
Alice’s daughter puts up with emotional abuse even before Alice marries Jack. When she expresses her fear, she is told it doesn’t matter - her mother getting married is more important than her fear. Alice goes through mental, emotional, verbal, physical, and even sexual abuse. I mean, he beats her and then rapes her when she’s knocked unconscious! But that’s okay. It’s better to save face than to protect her family. Let’s be clear - she has the means to leave him and knows it. But all is well when he apologizes the night the child he wanted aborted is born. He promises he’s turned over a new leaf - then drinks himself unconscious. But that’s a-okay! It’s roses and smiles and happily ever after. How dangerous of a message is that? I can have no respect for the gross irresponsibility of this story seeing print.

Disappointed and disgusted

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This book was dry and hard to get through.But since I paid for it, I was going to see it through. The ending is terrible and I literally kept thinking that there was a glitch with the playback and there was more to the story that it wasn't playing. It was kind of like the author was told you have to finish this story up in five words or less.

Disappointed with this one. Just ends flatly and suddenly

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