What do you think?
Rate this book
The Loveless Child
England, 1940s.
Minnie has spent most of her life feeling like a plain Jane, watching things happen around her, waiting for something - just something - to once happen to her. When her old best friend, the beautiful and callous Junie, unexpectedly returns to Sixteen Streets, Minnie's not quite sure how to feel. Once inseparable, the two now find themselves at odds. And when Junie strikes up a romance with Minnie's brother Derek, Minnie can't help but feel lonelier than ever...
Junie's looking to start anew - she's running from her mucky, strained life in South Manchester, and the cruel man she shared it with. But when she returns to Sixteen Streets, all her old wounds - from her mother to her friends - resurface. And she has no choice but to face them, and this place she once called home.
In the midst of it all, can the two women find their way back to each other - and themselves - once again ?
Or will Sixteen Streets really break them apart?
Minnie has spent most of her life feeling like a plain Jane, watching things happen around her, waiting for something - just something - to once happen to her. When her old best friend, the beautiful and callous Junie, unexpectedly returns to Sixteen Streets, Minnie's not quite sure how to feel. Once inseparable, the two now find themselves at odds. And when Junie strikes up a romance with Minnie's brother Derek, Minnie can't help but feel lonelier than ever...
Junie's looking to start anew - she's running from her mucky, strained life in South Manchester, and the cruel man she shared it with. But when she returns to Sixteen Streets, all her old wounds - from her mother to her friends - resurface. And she has no choice but to face them, and this place she once called home.
In the midst of it all, can the two women find their way back to each other - and themselves - once again ?
Or will Sixteen Streets really break them apart?
- GenresHistorical Fiction
368 pages, Paperback
Published June 24, 2025
2 people are currently reading
12 people want to read
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews
December 16, 2024
Sixteen Streets trilogy book three.
Minnie Minton with nothing to her name can she find a new home?
South Shields country Durham.
Minnie a hard worker in the fish bar Swetty Betty's her mam's shop, and shifts at the Robin Hood pub, and now helping on Susan's market stall her best friend Junie comes home and starts walking out with her brother Derek.
Ah I love Minnie lass who's never had a lucky break or a shot at happiness then Arthur Kendricks asks her out to a dance, and insisting to her mam and everyone it's not a date.
Sixteen Streets then down into the Biscuit factory in Frederick street will always be her home. The Loveless Child is a delightful story that I enjoyed right through,
With some funny witty cracks from characters that brings the north eastern slang that I do call home.
A read that is easily read as a stand alone.
5 stars from me.
Minnie Minton with nothing to her name can she find a new home?
South Shields country Durham.
Minnie a hard worker in the fish bar Swetty Betty's her mam's shop, and shifts at the Robin Hood pub, and now helping on Susan's market stall her best friend Junie comes home and starts walking out with her brother Derek.
Ah I love Minnie lass who's never had a lucky break or a shot at happiness then Arthur Kendricks asks her out to a dance, and insisting to her mam and everyone it's not a date.
Sixteen Streets then down into the Biscuit factory in Frederick street will always be her home. The Loveless Child is a delightful story that I enjoyed right through,
With some funny witty cracks from characters that brings the north eastern slang that I do call home.
A read that is easily read as a stand alone.
5 stars from me.
March 11, 2025
What an emotional rollercoaster
What an emotional rollercoaster of emotions from highs to lows you couldn't help but feel the pain of these characters what they had to endure coming through it all and that ending OMG didn't see that coming if you haven't already read the sixteen streets trilogy then I would highly recommend it Elsie Mason brought you from the first sentence in book 1 to the last in book 3 I just hope we have another one so we can see what happens next
What an emotional rollercoaster of emotions from highs to lows you couldn't help but feel the pain of these characters what they had to endure coming through it all and that ending OMG didn't see that coming if you haven't already read the sixteen streets trilogy then I would highly recommend it Elsie Mason brought you from the first sentence in book 1 to the last in book 3 I just hope we have another one so we can see what happens next
July 22, 2025
the last in the trilogy I think, this mainly tells the story from Minnie's perspective.
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews