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Them Roper Girls
They were beauties all right, them Roper girls – but sometimes even four aces don’t make a winning hand.
In an unsettled 1950s household, how will the sisters come up from their shipwrecked childhood? Facing issues including domestic and sexual abuse, physical and mental illness, they struggle to offer their own children a better legacy. Follow them over sixty years to see if all the siblings make it safely to shore.
Angela: Whatever rumours you may have heard, I never knew Dad say my third sister Karen wasn’t his.
Janet: She had promised that on her sixteenth birthday she would finally let him go all the way.
Lucy: I think Jan was away at a Guides’ camp when I got run over.
Karen: Don’t think I’ll be rambling on like Ange … I wouldn’t want to leave you only her version, talk about unreliable memoirs.
Formats available: Hardback, Paperback, eBook
First published: 17 July, 2022
Publisher: Silverwood Books
ISBN: 9781800422261 (paperback), 9781800422278 (hardback)
Reviews for Them Roper Girls
“The story unfolds like completing a jigsaw, filling in the details of the characters and their lives over time to arrive at the final picture – the story of a family. It is gritty and raw in places, uncomfortable at times, joyous in others, totally relatable.”
C J Bunn
“I would say stick with this one, it is an interesting story, not always an easy read due to the subject matter but one that you carry in your heart.”
Zoé @zooloosbookdiary
“… a vivid, sometimes visceral story of the inside of a family, through the eyes of ‘unreliable narrators’ … full of the detail of lives that are fully lived, revealing so much in their individual and vivid ways. It is a fascinating and enjoyable book which I found entertaining and full of insight into realistic lives.”
Joules Barham @northernreader
“a paean to a working-class way of life and its resilience through adversity.”
Allan Gambles
“I became immersed in this expertly crafted story and found myself at times with tears streaming from eyes and at other times laughing out loud.”
Leanne Dagan @leannebookstagram