Nelly Kelly

by Lena Kennedy

In the turmoil and confusion of London's East End between the wars, young Nelly Kelly soon learns that life may never match her expectations. Forced to keep house for her autocratic, charming father, Nelly toils in a sweatshop to keep her family fed and clothed. But when life is hard, Nelly has friendship, dancing, and her early dreams to cling to. Dreams which slowly crumble as marriage, the war, and a lost baby are followed by the heartache of a lost love. Fortune may crush her proud spirit, but when faced with a crisis which will test her courage to the limit, no tragedy can change Nelly Kelly's determination to be her own woman.

Genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance

368 pages, Paperback

First published October 15, 1981

About the author

Lena Kennedy (June 15, 1914 - August 1 1986), was an English author. Her books were mostly historic romantic fiction set in and around the East End of London where she lived for all her life. Some of her books, including her autobiography, were published posthumously.

She appeared, as a subject, on the television programme This Is Your Life shortly before her death in 1986.