Name: Union Street

Author: Pat Barker
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9780860682837
9780399128806
0860682838
0399128808
"Vivid, bawdy and bitter" (The Times), Pat Barker's first novel shows the women of Union Street, young and old, meeting the harsh challenges of poverty and survival in a precarious world.

There's Kelly, at eleven, neglected and independent, dealing with a squalid rape; Dinah, knocking on sixty and still on the game; Joanne, not yet twenty, not yet married, and already pregnant; Old Alice, welcoming her impending death; Muriel helplessly watching the decline of her stoical husband.
And linking them all, watching over them all, mother to half the street, is fiery, indomitable Iris.
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