Time Will Knit

Penguin Main Series 362. 1st Edition, 1943.

Mirren and Wattie Gillespie live in a small, decayed fishing port on the Forth. They are about to be rehoused and this imminent eviction stirs memories of life at the turn of the century. An intelligent, ill-educated radical, Wattie passionately believed in the brotherhood of man, but with eight mouths to feed, could not afford such principles. Mirren, a resourceful woman, reared seven children in three rooms on 30 shillings a week. It is her daughters who inherit their mother's indominatable strength…

Condition grading: Good Minus. Foxing and wear to front cover. 3mm tear to right edge of front cover. Two light creases to top fo front cover.Minor wear to rear cover. Damage to ends of worn spine. Binding tight. The photographs form part of the description.