Young Victoria sees the land that once surrounded her family’s business spring to life as the new development accepts its residents. This is a great formula for a sweeping, multi-charactered, contemporary, Liverpool-based saga by one of the best in the genre.
Comparison: Lynda Page, Katie Flynn, Lyn Andrews.
Similar this month: Iris Gower, Michelle Paver.
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A moving contemporary novel set in Liverpool about the new residents of Victoria Square.
Victoria Macara is twenty-seven and lives in the old house on the corner that was once home to the family removal business. When the land is sold, she finds herself surrounded by a small estate of new properties called Victoria Square.
The newcomers who move in bring with them their own dramas: the mismatched lovers, Kathleen and Steve; Rachel, who is attempting to forget a terrible tragedy; upper-class Sarah arrives with her children after running away from an abusive husband, while Anna and Ernie are just after a quiet life. For Marie, Victoria Square is a refuge from the men who murdered her husband; for Judy, it means a fresh start after forty years of marriage to a man she'd thought she'd love for ever.
But it is to Gareth - trapped in a hopeless marriage - that Victoria is particularly drawn . . .
Old House On The Corner features in the following genres: Sagas, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
Old House On The Corner is available in Paperback
Old House On The Corner was written by Maureen Lee and published by Orion Publishing Co
Old House On The Corner has 513 pages
£11.69
