Orphan Of Angel Street/The Narrowboat Girl

In Orphan of Angel Street Mercy Hanley is abandoned at birth in the Birmingham of 1900. Her harsh foster mother soon finds out however that she has a mind of her own which threats beatings and poverty will not change as Mercy tries to create o better life for herself and her foster mother’s crippled daughter.Through the years of the First World War Mercy continues her fight. When she has freedom and security she can give her love…..In The Narrow Boat Girl young Maryann Nelson is devastated at the loss of her father, but worse is to come when her mother re-marries. Norman Griffin is not the man he appears to be. Unable to find support from their unsympathetic mother Maryann and sister Sal have to live with their harrowing secret and for Sal it proves to be too much.Maryann runs away to a new life on Joel Bartholomew’s long boat and finds herself falling in love with life on the canals around Birmingham. The novel is a testament to the power of true love and its ability to overcome suffering.