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Amanda Prowse

Clover's Child


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. Someone who wants to give her everything she has dreamed of. Someone who can promise her blue skies, laughter, sun and always, always love.

And for a while, life is truly like a song. They stroll hand-in-hand by the Serpentine, dance cheek-to-cheek in Soho's smoky bars, and begin to plan their idyllic future, growing old together in Sol's ancestral home on the island of St Lucia.

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…

398 printed pages
Copyright owner
Head of Zeus
Publication year
2013
Publisher
Head of Zeus

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  • b1784340806has quoted9 years ago
    it just made her feel more homesick, more isolated and more desperate. It was as if she was lost – where was she? And how could she be homesick for a home that no longer existed except as a fantasy.
  • b1784340806has quoted9 years ago
    War makes people wicked.
  • b1784340806has quoted9 years ago
    That when happiness is taken at the expense of someone else’s and the consequence is misery for them, it’s not right. It’s too high a price

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