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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Olive's Boys

Olive's Boys

Canning, Joseph

Paperback

Historical FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 1547091754
ISBN13: 9781547091751
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 1 2017
Pages: 406
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A mother's fight to keep her family together in wartime...1940 and the Blitz on London is at its height... bombing is daily as well as nightly. Amid it all, exhausted young mother Olive Cullen defies the bombs and the authorities to keep her family of seven sons together, even as her fickle Irish husband deserts her and goes on the run from the police and the army.Made homeless by the bombing, Olive returns to the isolated East Coast village of her birth, hoping to find peace and shelter there for herself and her large family, only to be turned away by her father and her two bullying brothers.Eventually, she finds refuge in an abandoned hovel and from there begins the fight to restore her dignity and her pride, even as others take against her...

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