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A Daughter’s Secret
By Anne Bennett
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A moving and gritty saga of loss, separation and finally hope, set in wartime Birmingham
Agnes Sullivan is fifteen when her young brother Tom finds her drunk and crying in the lane near their farm. Her dancing teacher has raped her and abandoned her. Aggie is forced to leave home when she discovers she’s pregnant and Tom, barely a teenager himself, decides the teacher must pay for his actions.
Aggie flees to Birmingham, but the safe haven she’s been promised turns out to be too dangerous to stay in. She’s left with few options until someone she would never have spoken to in her former life gives her the help she so desperately needs. But will World War One ruin her precarious hopes of a future?
Anne Bennett’s sagas of Birmingham during the wars have won her many fans, as they are packed full of emotion, determination and authenticity. Regional sagas don’t come any better than this.
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Anne Bennett
Anne Bennett was born in the Horsefair district of Birmingham. The daughter of Roman Catholic Irish immigrants, she grew up in a tight-knit community. For many years she taught in schools to the north of Birmingham, before an accident put paid to that career. This gave her the chance to write full time. She has four children and four grandchildren. In 2006, after sixteen years in a wheelchair, Anne was able to walk again.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Daughter’s Secret by Anne Bennett is a family saga that features members of the Sullivan family over some 40 years. It opens in Ireland where the Sullivans live on a small farm. Th daughter of the family, Aggie is fifteen when she is raped by her dancing teacher. Then on finding out she is pregnant, she runs away to Birmingham, hoping for a new life and a fresh start. Unfortunately, the naive Aggie is an easy target and finds herself embroiled in a life of prostitution, booze and drugs.The story moves back and forth between Aggie in Birmingham and the rest of the family on the farmin Ireland. While her mother, who is more than a little crazy, declares Aggie dead to the family, her two older brothers remember her with love. After many years, eldest brother Tom goes to Birmingham to visit other relatives and bumps into Aggie. Now he must figure out a way to free Aggie from the horrible man who controls her every move.While this story was filled with more than it’s share of melodrama it, is a page turner. A story of love, loss and family ties I have to admit that I gobbled it up.