Moving Times trilogy: Bloom Of Youth

Download or read book Moving Times trilogy: Bloom Of Youth written by Rachel Anderson and published by Hodder Children's Books. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the late 1950s: teenagers have barely begun to be invented. Ruth and her older sister Mary struggle with the chaos of their parents' attempts to support five children by renting a rambling country house and running it as a holiday home for children of the rich. When their father dies, their increasingly desperate mother turns her efforts to the two hapless girls. Eager to marry them off, she plunges them into dancing classes and presentation at Buckingham Palace as phoney under-age debutants. Instead Mary finds LIFE at art school in a nearby town, with beatniks, jazz poets and dancing in the river. When friends persuade their mother to take the family to a new start in London, Ruth finds that she, too, has other life-plans . . .