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Mary's story continues as an inseparable school friendship develops between Mary and Joyce. Joyce’s wild life brings tragic consequences. Nothing prepares you for a it; it is a story of heartbreak and despair, as these increasingly desperate homeless young mothers, join the world of the single... read more
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Characters edit
- Mary: Mary is a young teenager at school. Pretty, with bright green eyes. She comes from poverty and is invisible to the care system.
- Joyce: Mary's best friend, and is inseperable. They grow up together, both from damaged childhoods. Joyce's mother leaves her to bring up the familiy alone, with her 3 siblings. She is dangerously wild, so, so dangerous, she flickers around the flame like a moth. As a young woman she struggles to make it out of poverty.
- Nellie: Mother to two chldren, she comes from a posh family of Bakers in London, has a child by a married man in the Blitz, marries James, in 1946 who brings up her child. But they descend into poverty, but she doesn't have any love in her.
- James: Father of two children and married to Nellie. He is an alcoholic, and gambler.
- James Phelge: He is Mary's brother after he is slung out of the house goes and lives with Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones.
- Jane: Sister of Mary, 12 years younger.
Quotes edit
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“I felt in a wilderness so vast, that time itself was absent, save the gossamer thread of hope that dangled at the end of that phone line.”
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“It was like a cork floating in a bottle of words, each time I went to pour the cork jammed in my thought.”
Setting & Locations edit
London UK 1960's, 70's
- Emerson Park: The location of the party, where Joyce lived at the time.
- Spurs football ground: White hart lane, London. Elseys Sports Shop.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Mary Hayward (Author)
Subjects edit
Links to Supplemental Material edit
- Author website: About the author, and pictures of the time. Newspaper articles and live radio interview with the author.
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