Book description
Young Mabel Court, child of her mother's hasty marriage to a
spendthrift, becomes 'little mother' to her brothers and sisters
growing up in south London at the start of the twentieth century.
With poverty never far from the door, the battle to stay respectable
is finally lost when the family breaks up in tragic circumstances, and
Mabel is thrown upon the dubious mercy of her grandmother, the
sinister Mimi Court, who has her own dark secrets.
But faithful Harry Drover of the Salvation Army, in love with Mabel,
gets an opportunity to prove his devotion when Mimi falls foul of the
law and Mabel has to fight for her own survival...
Maggie Bennett was born in Hampshire. When she left school at
eighteen she started general nursing training and, after a year as a
staff nurse, she went on to train as a midwife. Her career was
interrupted by marriage at thirty-five, and she moved to Manchester
where her two daughters were born; she later returned to work as a
midwife until her retirement in 1991. Having been an avid reader and
scribbler all her life, she took a correspondence course in creative
writing after her husband's death in 1983, and started writing articles
and short stories. A CHILD'S VOICE CALLING is her first novel.
