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Martha's Journey

by Maureen Lee · 2010

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Liverpool, 1914. Martha Rossi lives in a tenement with her husband and their five children. Despite working all the hours she can, the family don't have much to get by on. When Martha's 14-year-old son, Joe, proudly enlists to fight for his country just to earn his mother an extra shilling, Martha is horrified.

Genre
historical fictionWorld War Iwomen’s fiction
Themes
saga
Setting
World War I
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 344 pages

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