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About the author Barry William Doughty was a war baby, born on the 11th of November 1940. For circumstances known only to his mother, (now deceased) he was born in the town of Greenock Scotland, and was brought directly back to Portsmouth, his mothers home town, It is in and around Portsmouth that he has spent his life up until the present. His earliest memories are of his home in Walmer Road, Fratton, close to Portsmouth FCs ground. He remembers with clarity the little footbridge in Walmer Road and the hazardous bombed buildings that were his playgrounds just after the war, and features in his book: Angels of the mud.
Angels of the Mud
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2940044702509
- Publisher: Barry Doughty
- Publication date: 03/06/2012
- Sold by: Smashwords
- Format: eBook
- File size: 567 KB
- Age Range: 18 Years
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A story of Old Portsmouth
Angels of the mud is a historic thriller. It begins in 1907 and follows the life of Nell Masters a sixteen-year-old, born midst the slums and grog houses of Old Portsmouth:
a place where children practice the act of mudlarking, some for the fun and experience, but all too often for the price of a meal. Nell is forced to become a factory seamstress, the breadwinner by her work-shy young mother. She is a pretty girl, a quality that is soon to cause her problems with some of her fellow workers. Dislike becomes something more sinister when Nell finds love in the form of her boss’s nephew. Jealousy becomes the motive for Scheming work associates to lure her into a district rife with prostitution. This draws Nell into events involving rape and murder. Then if the shame of an unwanted pregnancy is not enough for her to contend with, the hangman’s rope casts a shadow over her. Nell’s life sinks into a chasm, she is faced with two choices, perish in the snow or make for the Workhouse. Surely, things cannot get any worse; or is fate planning a rockslide? This is just the beginning.
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