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A sign of the times / Mary Jane Staples.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Staples, Mary Jane. Adams family ; 28.Publication details: London : Bantam, 2006.Description: 383 pages : geneological table ; 18 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0593055683 (hbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.914 22
Subject: It's 1959, and Boots Adams and his wife Polly are helping to celebrate the retirement of barman Joe at their favorite Camberwell pub, when they witness with horror a sudden and vicious attack on Joe by a knife-wielding young thug. Is this a sign of the times? Is contempt for old traditions and enthusiasm for everything new and fashionable going to threaten the Adams family and their easy-going existence? While young Gemma is courted by one of the young men who works for her father, her twin brother James finds himself affected by his girlfriend's intriguing family secrets. And just who is the mysterious young woman who arrives from Finland to study at Gemma's college?
List(s) this item appears in: English Authors historical fiction
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Fiction Davis (Central) Library Fiction Collection Fiction Collection STA 1 Available T00426704
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"It s 1959, and Boots Adams and his wife Polly are helping to celebrate the retirement of barman Joe at their favourite Camberwell pub, when they witness with horror a sudden and vicious attack on Joe by a knife-wielding young thug. Is this a sign of the times? Is contempt for old traditions and enthusiasm for everything new and fashionable going to threaten the Adams family and their easy-going existence? While young Gemma is courted by one of the young men who works for her father, her twin brother James finds himself affected by his girlfriend s intriguing family secrets. And just who is the mysterious young woman who arrives from Finland to study at Gemma s college?

It's 1959, and Boots Adams and his wife Polly are helping to celebrate the retirement of barman Joe at their favorite Camberwell pub, when they witness with horror a sudden and vicious attack on Joe by a knife-wielding young thug. Is this a sign of the times? Is contempt for old traditions and enthusiasm for everything new and fashionable going to threaten the Adams family and their easy-going existence? While young Gemma is courted by one of the young men who works for her father, her twin brother James finds himself affected by his girlfriend's intriguing family secrets. And just who is the mysterious young woman who arrives from Finland to study at Gemma's college?

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