Clover's Child

The heartbreaking love story from the number 1 bestseller

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Pub Date 01 Jul 2013 | Archive Date 02 Jan 2015

Description

From the million-copy bestseller Amanda Prowse, the queen of heartbreak fiction.

Amanda Prowse is the author of The Coordinates Of Loss and the no.1 bestsellers Perfect Daughter, My Husband's Wife and What Have I Done?

When eighteen-year-old Dot meets Sol, she feels that love has arrived at last. Solomon Arbuthnott is a man who can bring colour and warmth to her drab life in sixties London – and what's more, he is a young, handsome soldier with excellent prospects. Someone who wants to give her everything she has dreamed of. Someone who can promise her blue skies, laughter, sun and always, always love.

And for a while, life is truly like a song. They stroll hand-in-hand by the Serpentine, dance cheek-to-cheek in Soho's smoky bars, and begin to plan their idyllic future, growing old together in Sol's ancestral home on the island of St Lucia.

But this is 1961. East End girls don't date West Indian boys, let alone fall in love with them and leave the country. They stay at home and live the life their parents planned for them. Even if it leaves them lonelier than they ever thought possible. Even if it rips their heart in two... Reviews for Amanda Prowse:

'Prowse handles her explosive subject with delicate skill ... Deeply moving and inspiring' DAILY MAIL.

'Powerful and emotional family drama that packs a real punch' HEAT.

'A gut wrenching and absolutely brilliant read' IRISH SUN.

'Captivating, heartbreaking, superbly written' CLOSER.

'Very uplifting and positive, but you may still need a box (or two) of tissues' HELLO.

'An emotional, unputdownable read' RED.

'Prowse writes gritty, contemporary stories but always with an uplifting message of hope' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT.

From the million-copy bestseller Amanda Prowse, the queen of heartbreak fiction.

Amanda Prowse is the author of The Coordinates Of Loss and the no.1 bestsellers Perfect Daughter, My Husband's Wife...


A Note From the Publisher

Amanda Prowse is the author of the bestselling "What Have I Done?", as well as "A Little Love" and "Something Quite Beautiful."

Amanda Prowse is the author of the bestselling "What Have I Done?", as well as "A Little Love" and "Something Quite Beautiful."


Advance Praise

"This heartbreaking story of forbidden love is very good indeed." —Bookseller

"This heartbreaking story of forbidden love is very good indeed." —Bookseller


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Featured Reviews

This book is such a moving read. I really cherished the time that I spent reading within the pages and when I had finished it I had tears in my eyes like I was saying farewell to a close friend.

I haven't read a novel written by Prowse before. I'm not sure how I haven't found out about this author before I selected this novel for review. I feel like I have been missing out on so much but now that I have found Prowse I can get caught up.

Clover's child is a beautiful story of love, life and tragedy. What I think I admired most was how deeply honest this book is. It's realistic and deals with issues that most authors would shy away from. By Prowse conquering these issues she penned a book that is worth the highest of praises.

I'm greatly looking forward to getting my hands on the next book by the author whether it be a pre-release or something new as I think I have found a new, favorite author to enjoy this new year.

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Charming, readable prose. You'll see yourself in these pages somewhere.

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The LAST line of this book will blow you away. As you follow Dot through the one of the hardest, scariest, darkest years of her life you will ache for her, cry with her and want so desperately to help her. This is a story about love, the love between a young couple, who should have everything to look forward to together. They talk about their future together in longing detail, the promises made from one to the other, the commitment to always be together. It should be so simple.... Sadly it is everything but. This is a story of a white girl from a poor family living in London who falls for a black boy who is visiting with his rich, powerful family from an island paradise in the 1960's. You will see how family can be so cruel and hateful, how the older adults how you are suppose to look up to can be so narrow minded and beyond selfish. You will see how money and the color of a persons skin rule over everything else. You will see a young woman broken beyond repair .... but is she ? This may sound like a bad story and a book you do not want to read but I guarantee that you will be thoroughly captivated and when you read the last line, it will all fall into perspective.

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