A Mother Forever Elaine Everest

A MOTHER FOREVER BY ELAINE EVEREST

PAPERBACK PUBLISHED BY PAN MACMILLAN 4TH MARCH 2021

1905: Ruby Caselton is just twenty-five years old. Heavily pregnant with her second child, penniless and exhausted, she is moving her family into a new home. Her husband Eddie has promised he’ll hold on to his job this time, but he’s also keeping a secret, one so dark that he can’t bear to tell even Ruby . . .

Through Ruby’s grit and determination, she keeps food on the table and finds herself a community of neighbours on Alexandra Road. Stella the matriarch from across the way, soon becomes a friend and confidant. She even dreams that Ruby will Dutch the useless Eddie and take up with her eldest son, Frank. But when war breaks out in 1914, the heartbreaks and the losses that follow will fracture their community, driving Stella and Ruby to breaking point. Will their men ever return to them ?

MY REVIEW

A Mother Forever is The People’s Friend magazine recommendations, and I couldn’t agree more it’s a stunning story. I first was Introduced by author Elaine Everest through her bestselling amazing novels The Woolworths Girls. I’m delighted to have read the paperback A Mother Forever, about Ruby who is the heart of her family, even when her own heart is broken. I recommend reading this book or all books by author Elaine Everest.

What People are saying about A Mother Forever.

A warm tale of friendship and romance : My Weekly

Captures the spirt of wartime : Woman’s Weekly

Heartwarming : woman’s Own

Warm characters and moving tales : Sunday Express

A charming, warm-hearted read : Take A Break

A lovely read : Bella

First Page Of Chapter 1

Erith, Kent

August 1905

You’ve got ideas above your situation, my girl. If your father was alive now, he’d want nothing to do with you. The Tomkins family have always known their place in life; he wouldn’t want us rubbing shoulders with those who think there’re better than us, Milly Tomkins said to her daughter.

Ruby Caselton gave a big sigh and continued to pull a heavy rug from the back of the drayman’s cart, while he held the horse’s head steady. It’s just a street of houses with hard-working people living in them. Could you take the other end of this please, Mum ?

What, with my bad ticker ? You’ll see me into my grave, young lady. But then, perhaps that’s what you want- then they’ll be none of us ,eft to remind you of where you come from, Milly sniffed, folding her arms over her ample chest and turning away to look at the house the family were about to move into. Those windows need a clean and the doorstep a good scrub.

I would like to thank pan Macmillan for sending me the printed paperback A Mother Forever.

ABOUT ELAINE EVEREST

Elaine Everest, author of bestselling novels The Woolworths Girls, The Butlins Girls, Christmas at Woolworths and Wartime at Wool, was born and brought up in north -west Kent, where many of her books arset. She has been a freelance writer for twenty years and her written widely for women’s magazines and national newspapers, both short stories features. Her non-fiction books for dog owners have been very popular and led her to broadcasting on radio about our four-legged friends. Elaine has been heard discussing many topics on radio, from canine subjects to living with a husband under her feet when redundancy looms.

When she isn’t writing, Elaine runs The Write Place creative writing school in Hextable, Kent, and has a long list of published students.

Elaine lives with her husband, Michael, and their Polish Lowland Sheepdog, Henry, in Swanley, Kent, and is a member of the Romantic Novelist Association, the Crime Writers Association, the society of Women’s Writers and journalists, and the Society of Authors.

You can find out more about Elaine on Twitter @ElaineEverest

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