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Maggie

by Marie Maxwell · 2014

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1960s. Maggie Wheaton s life is almost perfect. Confident, bright and popular, she lives with her loving, wealthy parents in a close-knit Cambridgeshire village. But, just days after her sixteenth birthday, her world falls apart: an accident kills both her parents, and then she suffers the ultimate betrayal when she learns a life-changing family secret. Maggie has no choice but to go and live with her appointed guardian, Ruby Riordan, in the seaside town of Southend, where she sets out on a deliberate path of self-destruction. Will Ruby be able to save her from herself, or is it all too little too late?"

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historical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
womenwomenMore like thisLess of this
Setting
LondonLondonMore like thisLess of thisEnglandEnglandMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 224 pages

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