Mary Gibson: 10 books
Hattie's Home
After the war, London's in ruins. A story of love and laughter, against all the odds
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017
A passionate and heartwarming saga from the bestselling author of CUSTARD TARTS AND BROKEN HEARTS.
January 1947.
The war is over. But London is still a wasteland.
After eight years in the ATS, Hattie Wright returns to a Bermondsey she doesn't recognise. With so few jobs, she reluctantly takes...
Jam and Roses
The heartbreaking story of women's lives in London's docklands
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The poignant and powerful second novel from the bestselling author of Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts.
London, 1923.
Bermondsey is the larder of London with its bustling docks, spice mill, tannery and factories.
Milly Colman knows she's lucky. Working at Southwell's jam factory all week means...
A Sister's Struggle
A gripping 1930s saga of love, loss and friendship
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
The heartfelt new saga from Mary Gibson, bestselling author of Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts.
London, 1935.
Ruby is always hungry, but she will go without if it means her young brothers can eat.
1930s Bermondsey might be called the larder of London, with its pie, pickle and jam factories,...
Bourbon Creams and Tattered Dreams
From America to Bermondsey, a story of hope, heartbreak and hardship
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
From America to Bermondsey, a story of hope, heartbreak and hardship, by the bestselling author of Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts.
London, 1930.
He promised her the earth. She found herself in hell.
Handsome Frank Rossi took Matty Gilbie away from her working class roots in Bermondsey, East...
Gunner Girls and Fighter Boys
Bermondsey in the blitz, and two lives changed forever
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
An incredible story of ordinary women living extraordinary lives, from the bestselling author of Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts.
London, 1939.
As the Blitz hits London, two sisters from Bermondsey find their lives changed beyond all recognition.
May is known to her family as the homing...
Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts
Factory girls fight for their loves, lives and rights in World War I Bermondsey
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The captivating bestseller about a factory girl in Bermondsey during World War 1.
Britain, 1911.
Strikes and riots erupt countrywide as the shadow of the Great War looms over Europe. But in one small corner of London, factory girl Nellie Clark's wages are all that keep her younger brothers...
Handbook for Practice Learning in Social Work and Social Care, Third Edition
Knowledge and Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
This fully updated and expanded third edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive introduction to key theory, knowledge, research and evidence relating to practice learning in social work and social care.
It outlines the theories that underpin social care practice, the main assessment...
Circling Faith
Southern Women on Spirituality
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2012
Circling Faith is a collection of essays by southern women that encompasses spirituality and the experience of winding through the religiously charged environment of the American South.
Mary Karr, in “Facing Altars,” describes how the consolation she found in poetry directed her...
Separate Spheres No More
Gender Convergence in American Literature, 1830-1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Although they wrote in the same historical milieu as their male counterparts, women writers of the 19th- and early 20th-centuries have generally been "ghettoized" by critics into a separate canonical sphere. These original essays argue in favor of reconciling male and female writers, both...
by Pamela Hallan-Gibson, Don Tryon, Mary Ellen Tryon
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
The legendary swallows aren�t the only annual returnees to San Juan Capistrano. The great coastal mission draws more than 500,000 visitors a year into the southern reaches of Orange County. The most famous of all the missions in the California system established in the 18th century by Franciscan friar...