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Authors: Mary Jane Staples
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Chinese Lady was thinking about the young ones, and their marriages, and their children. Lord, I just don’t know how I’m going to count them all.
She mused on her years of life and her family, then spoke to her husband.
‘Edwin, it won’t be long now before we have to go to Buckingham Palace.’
‘True, Maisie, not long,’ said Mr Finch.
‘Well, I hope all our family will be able to keep their heads about it,’ she said, ‘and I still don’t know how I’m going to keep mine, or to put up with being Lady Finch for the rest of my life. Oh, lor’. Edwin?’
‘Yes, my dear?’
‘Where’s my smelling salts?’
About the Author
Mary Jane Staples
was born, bred and educated in Walworth, and is the author of many bestselling novels, including the ever-popular cockney sagas featuring the Adams family
The Adams Books
Down Lambeth Way
Our Emily
King of Camberwell
On Mother Brown's Doorstep
A Family Affair
Missing Person
Pride of Walworth
Echoes of Yesterday
The Young Ones
The Camberwell Raid
The Last Summer
The Family at War
Fire Over London
Churchill's People
Bright Day, Dark Night
Tomorrow is Another Day
The Way Ahead
Year of Victory
The Homecoming
Appointment at the Palace
Changing Times
Spreading Wings
Family Fortunes
A Girl Next Door
Ups and Downs
Out of the Shadows
A Sign of the Times
The Soldier's Girl
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Two for Three Farthings
The Lodger
Rising Summer
The Pearly Queen
Sergeant Joe
The Trap
The Ghost of Whitechapel
Escape to London
The Price of Freedom
A Wartime Marriage
Katernia's Secret
The Summer Day is Done
The Longest Winter
Natasha's Dream
Nurse Anna's War
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