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Emma Chambers is from a poor family and is offered a way out if she marries a landlord. Horace Bell is abusive and Emma is thankful when he eventually abandons her. Years later, Emma has a successful business on South London's meanest streets. Someone is intent on revenge and Emma is in danger.
Emma Chambers has an way out of the poverty-stricken life she lives - but it might just destroy her to take it...The gritty tale from the bestselling author of NOBODY'S GIRL. DESPERATE...Left to raise eight siblings after her mother's death, 17-year-old Emma Chambers faces a daily battle with hunger and her father's drunken rages. Until she is offered a way out. If she marries landlord Horace Bell - twenty years her senior - Emma can swap abject poverty for comfort. DEGRADED...But Horace soon reveals his true, sadistic colours. Emma is thankful when he eventually abandons her - until she realises she is again penniless and in peril. A chance meeting plants an idea in her mind. All her life, men have taken advantage of her. Now it's time to turn the tables. IN DANGER...Years later, and Emma has built up a successful business on South London's meanest streets. But then tragedy strikes - and it becomes clear that someone has been watching Emma, intent on revenge...
Review:
PRAISE FOR SINS OF THE FATHER: 'Full of drama and heartache.' Closer Magazine 'A surprisingly gritty novel.' Lancashire Evening Post
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