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The Surplus Girls' Orphans

By: Polly Heron
Narrated by: Julia Franklin
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Manchester, 1922. Molly Watson has had enough. Engaged for the last three years to a penny-pinching pedant, she finally decides she'd rather be a surplus girl than marry a man she doesn't truly love. Aware of the need to support herself if she is to remain single all her life, she joins a secretarial class to learn new skills and a whole world opens up to her.

When she gets a job at St Anthony's Orphanage, she befriends caretaker Aaron Abrams. But a misunderstanding leaves them at loggerheads and damages her in the eyes of the children she has come to care so deeply about. Can she recover her reputation, her livelihood and her budding friendship, before it's too late?

©2021 Polly Heron (P)2021 Soundings 20th Century Coming of Age Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Historical Fiction Romance World War I
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