Can an ordinary girl dare to be different? The compelling new bestseller from Birmingham's Queen of Fiction Janet is determined to make something of herself, instead of being chained to a sink with a baby a year like most women of her generation. She passes her eleven-plus and wins a scholarship to go to a good grammar school, but her father refuses to believe that girls have the right to do anything other than look after their husbands and raise children. Struggling to fit in at her new school and picked on by the other girls, Janet befriends, Ruth, another lonely pupil whose Jewish family have suffered many hardships. Janet and Ruth forge a strong friendship through her school life and beyond. But will their friendship survive when Janet falls for Ruth's brother, Ben -marriage to a Catholic girl would go against everything his community hold dear. When the whole world seems stacked against her, can Janet hold onto her dreams?
Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-13
9780007547821
eBay Product ID (ePID)
238522590
Product Key Features
Book Title
A Little Learning
Author
Anne Bennett
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Genealogy
Publication Year
2017
Genre
Romance
Number of Pages
496 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
340g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Anne Bennett
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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