Book description
It is early summer in 1953, and the friends and neighbours of Magnolia
Square are looking forward to celebrating the Coronation. The war has
become a memory; the future seems rosy. Kate Emmerson looks on with
pride at her growing family, including Matthew, whose father was killed
during the war. But Matthew's wealthy relations have never really
forgiven Kate for marrying Leon, a West Indian who works as a Thames
lighterman, and when Matthew runs away from his smart boarding school in
Somerset the tensions which exist between the two families come to a
head. Meanwhile Zac, the wonderfully talented and handsome new signing
at the local boxing club, is being eyed hopefully by all the young women
of Magnolia Square. But he has eyes for only one woman - Carrie Collins,
who has teenage children of her own and whose husband, Danny, seems more
interested in the boxing club and his market stall than in her.
In the weeks leading up to the Coronation festivities, drama and tragedy
threaten to haunt Magnolia Square, but by the time the great day dawns,
the bells ring out in celebration as the Londoners enjoy themselves as
only they know how. 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.
