Maggies Market, Dee Williams
Maggies Market, Dee Williams
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Maggie's Market

Author: Dee Williams

Narrator: Roe Kendall

Unabridged: 10 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2007

Categories: Fiction, Sagas


Synopsis

Its 1935, and Maggie Ross loves her life among the stallholders in Kelvin Market, where her husband Tony has a bricabrac stall and where she lives, with her young family, above Mr. Goldmans tailoring shop. But when, one fine spring day, her husband disappears into thin air, her world collapses.The last anyone saw of Tony was at Rotherhithe station, where Mr. Goldman glimpsed him boarding a train. Maggie can only guess at her husbands destination or his reason for leaving so suddenly when shes got a baby on the way. What she does begin to learn is who her real friends are, as she struggles to bring her children up alone. Theres outspoken, goldenhearted Winnie, and cheeky Eve whom shes known since girlhood. And then there's Inspector Matthews, the policeman sent to investigate her husbands disappearance, to whom Maggie is increasingly drawn.

About Dee Williams

Dee Williams was born and brought up in Rotherhithe in East London where her father worked as a stevedore in Surrey docks. Dee left school at fourteen, met her husband at sixteen, and was married at twenty. After living abroad for some years, Dee and her husband moved to Hampshire, close to the rest of her family. She is the author of eight hugely popular sagas set in Rotherhithe.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Clare on July 30, 2014

Set in 1935. Maggie in London helps her husband Tony run a barrow stall on the market. They sell odds and ends, china and junk. But Tony has been gambling unknown to his wife and he finds it prudent to disappear. Only as Maggie copes alone while she puzzles out what has become of him, and gradually......more

Goodreads review by Mookie on January 30, 2022

I was really invested in the mystery of what happened to her husband, but even though it was so predictable, I got so peeved.......more

Goodreads review by jessica nicoll on April 05, 2021

This book just flows its one I go back to again and again Maggie it lovely and just thinks she can do it like Tony but it just goes to show sometimes you can and sometimes you need someone......more

Goodreads review by HANY on February 20, 2023

A very interesting novel worth reading......more

Goodreads review by Sue on April 18, 2014

It was OK. Not the best book I have ever read, but as an easy read I enjoyed it.......more