Diamonds in the dust

Beryl Matthews

earliest edition we have, 2008 Severn House, 2008 252 pages

"London, 1920. The three Bentley children are used to fending for themselves. Their widowed mother has been forced to take a night job at Grants clothing factory, and sees them only at breakfast and on Sundays. But at nearly eighteen, and with a job as a housemaid to help make ends meet, Dora is well able to look after her younger siblings, twelve-year-old Tom and little Lily. Then one morning their mother fails to a...

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Diamonds in the Dust edition · 2016 · Allison & Busby, Limited · 320 pages · 9780749018979
Diamonds in the dust edition · 2009 · Windsor · 334 pages · 9781408414613
Diamonds in the dust edition · 2008 · Severn House · 252 pages · 9780727866127

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