Book description
Set in the aftermath of the Great War A Child of Her Time is a
story of prejudice, passion and one woman's struggle to fight for what
she really wants in life - against all odds
At twenty-five, teacher Phyllis Bird is still living with her
parents in a quiet Hampshire village. With so many young men lost in
the Great War, including her own brothers, her life is empty and her
future without hope. Until, desperate to break out of her mundane
existence, she decides to take up the position of nursery maid in the
London home of acclaimed playwright Harold Berridge.
Befriended by the actress Maud Ling and thrown into the glamorous
but fickle world of the cinema, Phyllis falls passionately in love
with Maud's younger brother Teddy. But Teddy's heart lies elsewhere,
and when tragedy strikes the Berridge household a heartbroken Phyllis
is forced to leave.
Six months later, Phyllis has started to rebuild her life but her
world is turned upside down once more when she is invited to a party
at Maud Ling's film studios. For there she falls under the spell of
the charming but devious American actor Denver Towers, with disastrous consequences...
Maggie Bennett was born in Hampshire. She left school at eighteen and
started general nursing training and, after a year as a staff nurse, she
went on to train as a midwife. She married at thirty-five, and moved to
Manchester where her two daughters were born; she later returned to work
as a midwife until her retirement in 1991. She took a correspondence
course in creative writing after her husband's death in 1983, and
started writing articles and short stories. Her first novel,
A
Child's Voice Calling
, was published in 2002, followed by
A Child at the Door
and
A Carriage for the Midwife
in 2003.
