Maggie

A gripping saga set in the swinging sixties

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Pub Date 1 May 2015 | Archive Date 2 Mar 2015

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1960s. Maggie Wheaton’s life is almost perfect. Confident, bright and popular, she lives with her loving, wealthy parents in a close-knit Cambridgeshire village. But, just days after her sixteenth birthday, her world falls apart: an accident kills both her parents, and then she suffers the ultimate betrayal when she learns a life-changing family secret. Maggie has no choice but to go and live with her appointed guardian, Ruby Riordan, in the seaside town of Southend, where she sets out on a deliberate path of self-destruction. Will Ruby be able to save her from herself, or is it all too little too late?

1960s. Maggie Wheaton’s life is almost perfect. Confident, bright and popular, she lives with her loving, wealthy parents in a close-knit Cambridgeshire village. But, just days after her sixteenth...


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Maggie Wheaton has a perfectly happy life with her parents in the 1960s. Then just before she turns 16, her parents are killed in an accident and she learns her whole life has been built on lies. Now she has no choice but to go to Southend to live with her guardian, Ruby. Maggie refuses to see all the opportunities she has and sets out to systematically destroy herself. Does Ruby have the ability to reach her in time?

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