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The awakening of a young child's distrust in her beloved father and the turmoil of a wife betrayed. This story of suspicion, intrigue and deception takes place in a quiet suburb of North London in 1948, when the world still seemed young, even with a second world war just behind them. Max behaves as a single man without thought of the effects of his actions on his wife, Eleanor, or his daughter, Frances. Always a man of action, from his army service in bomb disposal in India through to raids in France during the war, Max's actions now take place in liaisons with other women. His life is woven through the shadier parts of London, where deals are done and silence is preferred.

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Since learning to read at the age of three, Jean Northeast has been an avid life-time bookworm, so it is no surprise that she has ended up as a writer. The fact that she has left it so long may well be due to raising four children, helping her husband manage his boatbuilding business, working as a lifeguard at the local swimming pool, and running the village post-office. Born in North London in the middle of a doodle-bug raid at the end of the Second World War, Jean was never destined for a peaceful existence, but her life has provided so much experience with which to endow her stories. They are sometimes shocking, often darkly humorous, and always entertaining. So sit back and enjoy the magic carpet ride back to the nineteen-forties!

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