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From the dark alleys of Whitechapel to the genteel luxury of Finsbury Square, from the hop fields of Kent to the bloody fields of Ypres, Beryl Kingston's compulsive new novel captures the atmosphere and the spirit of a forgotten age...
Ellen Murphy was born to a world of rotting slums and starving children. Determined to escape from poverty and from fear of her drunken Irish father, she takes a job as a shopgirl on Shoreditch High Street. And then she meets David Cheifitz.
The only son of devout Jewish parents, David has grown up with his future mapped out: an honest trade, marriage to a nice girl, and a handful of grandchildren for his mother to enjoy. But David is an artist and a rebel. When he falls in love with Ellen Murphy, he turns his back on the old ways.
Confident in the dizzy happiness of first love, they marry. But as time passes, religious differences." rejection by David's parents and domestic strife throw up barriers between them that their devotion to the children of their love cannot overcome. Only when David is drawn into the Great War do they realise how precious their marriage is... and by then it may be too late to find...
A TIME TO LOVE
Ellen Murphy was born to a world of rotting slums and starving children. Determined to escape from poverty and from fear of her drunken Irish father, she takes a job as a shopgirl on Shoreditch High Street. And then she meets David Cheifitz.
The only son of devout Jewish parents, David has grown up with his future mapped out: an honest trade, marriage to a nice girl, and a handful of grandchildren for his mother to enjoy. But David is an artist and a rebel. When he falls in love with Ellen Murphy, he turns his back on the old ways.
Confident in the dizzy happiness of first love, they marry. But as time passes, religious differences." rejection by David's parents and domestic strife throw up barriers between them that their devotion to the children of their love cannot overcome. Only when David is drawn into the Great War do they realise how precious their marriage is... and by then it may be too late to find...
A TIME TO LOVE