Book description
1945: The war was over, and the families who lived in Magnolia Square
could look forward to their men coming home and their lives returning to
normal. But for some, the end of the war brought serious problems. Kate
Voigt was at last able to marry Leon Emmerson, the man she loved, a
Londoner like herself, but of mixed race. When old man Harvey, a
powerful and wealthy figure in South London and great-grandfather to
Kate's small son, heard of the match he was determined that young
Matthew should not be raised by a 'darkie'. Slowly, insidiously, he
began the fight to wrest Kate's son away from her. And for Jewish
refugee Christina, who had married Jack Robson, a commando and the
handsomest man in the Square, the end of the war brought its own special
torment. She was convinced that her mother and grandmother had somehow
escaped the holocaust and were alive. It seemed that her determination
to find them could put everything, even her marriage, at risk. As
Magnolia Square, scarred and battered, but still surviving, prepared to
enjoy the 'Peace', so the inhabitants of the Square begin to try and
rebuild their lives. Margaret Pemberton is the bestselling author of
over thirty novels in many different genres, some of which are
contemporary in setting and some historical. She has served as Chairman
of the Romantic Novelists' Association and has three times served as a
committee member of the Crime Writers' Association. Born in Bradford,
she is married to a Londoner, has five children and two dogs and lives
in Whitstable, Kent. Apart from writing, her passions are tango, travel,
English history and the English countryside.
