Bow Belles

by Anna King

A young girl’s search for her mother brings danger – and romance Young Kate Browning was beginning to find the strain almost too hard to bear. With her mother Florrie missing, and her spineless father no use at all, it fell to Kate to look after the family. But life in East London at the end of the nineteenth century had never been easy, and with her cruel half-brother Alex becoming more and more difficult, she despaired of ever seeing her beloved mother again.

Her fortunes change when one day, searching for Florrie around the docks, she meets a friendly face in the form of John Kelly, a cheery Irishman who rescues her from a tricky situation. Together with his grandparents, John reminds her how good life can be – and she soon dreams of happiness with him.

But the dark shadow of Alex hangs over her still, and when he learns of her new friendship, his cruelty slides into madness. Harbouring unnatural desires for his beautiful half-sister, he will never allow the Irishman to take her away – but Kate has inherited her mother’s spirit as well as her looks, and vows to forge her own discovering what became of Florrie, and giving herself a deserved chance of love…

Bow Belles is an unputdownable saga from a master of the genre, sure to enthral readers of Dilly Court, Sally Warboyes, and Katie Flynn.

Genres: Fiction

272 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 1, 1995

About the author

Anna King is the pseudonym of Josephine Carr, a writer formerly published by HarperCollins, NAL/Penguin, and Dial Books for Young Readers. She's delighted to embrace independent publishing with her new company, Three Kings Books (also publishing Joseph King with novels CRACK and EVIL DOES IT, currently available for Amazon's Kindle).

Reviews

[Marian Robertson lawrie]

I enjoyed this book very much .

I chose this rating because in my opinion the book deserves 5 stars.
i enjoyed it very much for anyone who likes storys set in the late nineteenth century beginning of the 20th century i.m sure they will enjoy it as much as i did ..ive read a few of her books now and thoroughly enjoyed each one.

[annie beard]

O.k.

It was a great read hard to put down brilliant very good story very well written loved the story loved the people in the story well done can't wait to read the next book .

[Jo vegan]

Don’t judge a book by its cover. I was given this book so reading the back of it and thought it sounded ok. Set in bow east London. It was very well written and as good as any book I’ve read by Katie Flynn and the likes. I would definitely read more books by this author.

[Catherine Matsubu]

Very good reading

Anna King had written another very good story, with many twists and turns to keep the reader on their toes.

[Gary David Reed]

Ok

The book is ok. Not as good as the other two. I enjoy this author and will read anything she has written!.