Maggie

Four decades. Four generations. One World War.

Raised in Stepney, the heart of London’s East End, Maggie Riley is the only child of an Irish widower. When she becomes pregnant at the age of fifteen she is delighted, for it means she has captured her beloved Jim Burns.

But life is a constant struggle – to bring up her four sons, to cope with a part-time husband, to ‘better herself’. And that struggle is set against critical events of the era: the Depression, the Blackshirt marches, the devastation of World War II and its aftermath.

Rejoice in Maggie’s triumphs and feel the sorrow of her tragedies with this beautiful and moving tale of perseverance against all odds.