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The Reluctant Sinner

Eighteen-year-old Daisy Gilbert is the star seamstress at Madam Evans' prestigious gown shop in Southhampton. Although she is courting Jack, who works in the docks, her ultimate ambition is to open her own dressmaking business.

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  • "Eighteen-year-old Daisy Gilbert is the star seamstress at Madam Evans' prestigious gown shop in Southhampton. Although she is courting Jack, who works in the docks, her ultimate ambition is to open her own dressmaking business."@en
  • "September, 1914. When her father falls ill with tuberculosis, Daisy's meager wages from Madam Evans' elite dressmaker shop in Southampton aren't enough to support the family. When Daisy accepts an evening job as a bartender at a house of ill repute, she loses her seamstress job and is forced to make a decision that will change her life forever."
  • "Daisy Gilbert is the star seamstress at Mrs Evans' prestigious gown shop and well liked by customers but suppliments her family's finances with some private clients. Daisy is determined to find the money for her father's TB treatment and in all innocence begins working as a waitress in the town's upmarket brothel and temptations on her virtue."
  • "September, 1914. Eighteen-year-old Daisy Gilbert is the star seamstress at Madam Evans' prestigious gown shop in Southampton, but her ambition is to open her own dressmaking business. Her beloved father is desperately ill with TB and Daisy is determined to find enough money to send him to a nursing home, so when the flamboyant Mrs Cummings suggests that Daisy work for her in the evenings as a barmaid at the Solent club, a local upmarket brothel, she accepts. When Madam Evans hears about Daisy's other job she fires her - will Daisy be able to care for her father and preserve her own virtue?"

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  • "History"@en
  • "History"
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Saga"
  • "Domestic fiction"

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  • "The Reluctant Sinner"@en
  • "The reluctant sinner"
  • "The reluctant sinner"@en