The Shopkeeper's Daughter by Baxter, Lily, author

458, 11 pages ; 20 cm. June 1944. Ginnie Travis is working in her father's furniture shop, when the continued bombing raids and her sister Shirley's untimely pregnancy force the two girls to go and stay with their aunt in Shropshire. Here Ginnie falls in love with an American, Lieutenant Nick Miller, stationed nearby. But she discovers that Nick has a fiancee back home and a heartbroken Ginnie ends the relationship. Then news of their father's death in an air raid reaches them. With the family left almost penniless and Shirley and her child to provide for, Ginnie is responsible for them all. And when the shop comes under threat, she is even more determined to make it succeed and build a new life for herself and her family. Originally published: London: Century. This 2013 London : Arrow Books Paperback is in very good condition.

ISBN: 9780099574897 SKU: 1574980 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

Location: Fiction