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When eighteen-year-old Dot meets Sol, she feels that love has arrived at last. Solomon Arbuthnott is a man who can bring colour and warmth to her drab life in sixties London – and what's more, he is a young, handsome soldier with excellent prospects. But this is 1961. East End girls don't date West Indian boys, let alone fall in love with them and leave the country. They stay at home and live the life their parents planned for them. Even if it leaves them lonelier than they ever thought possible. Even if it rips their heart in two...

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Clover's Child

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    A Paperback / softback by Amanda Prowse

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      Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
      Published 16 January 2014
      ISBN-13 9781781854266
      978-1781854266
      ISBN-10 1781854262
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      Contemporary Fiction

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      When eighteen-year-old Dot meets Sol, she feels that love has arrived at last. Solomon Arbuthnott is a man who can bring colour and warmth to her drab life in sixties London – and what's more, he is a young, handsome soldier with excellent prospects. But this is 1961. East End girls don't date West Indian boys, let alone fall in love with them and leave the country. They stay at home and live the life their parents planned for them. Even if it leaves them lonelier than they ever thought possible. Even if it rips their heart in two...

      Trade Review
      A page-turning novel of loss and courage * The Sun *
      Captivating, heartbreaking, superbly written * Closer *
      A modern day love story * Daily Mail *

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