Jean Hendy Harris: 6 books

Following the sudden death of her only brother in early 2016 Jean Hendy-Harris decided to write the book that they had always planned to embark upon together, detailing their Thameside childhood in the years that followed World War II. More than Just Skeletons is a series of stories and anecdotes...

These unique childhood memories provide a look at working class life as it once was . Jean Hendy-Harris writes of growing up in Gravesend and Northfleet, towns flanking the River Thames and the mysterious marshland of the estuary in the years that followed WW2. Daily life changed in a leisurely manner...

All thoughts of Holy Orders, nursing and office work have finally been abandoned in this book as Jean takes stock of her situation and with great excitement decides to apply for a job as a showgirl at a London night club where she soon becomes acquainted with the infamous Stephen Ward. This is the...

A story of a working class childhood spent in a uniquely at odds with itself region of the Thames where customs of urban living clashed awkwardly with rural traditions. Jean was just one of hundreds of children who swarmed the narrow back streets of once attractive waterside villages long sacrificed...

After briefly flirting with Holy Orders and Nursing, Jean takes the 8.10 fast train from Gravesend to Charing Cross each morning having decided to make the best of being an office worker. Her first job is in the copyright department of a Tin Pan Alley music publisher. As a very impressionable teenager...

In the late 1960s the man Bernadette was obsessively in love with makes the suggestion that she murder their baby son when his abortion attempts fail to get rid of the child. Decades later impersonating Persephone Faith Callahan allows her to enter into email dialogue with her former lover seeking...