Ellie of Elmleigh Square

London England: Headline. Hardback. Very slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J. Ellie Walsh lives out her life in the battlefield that is number sixteen Elmleigh Square, forever caught in the crossfire between her out-of-work father, her selfish sisters and her violent, bitter mother, Ruby. Her job as a waitress in a local cafe is the only bright light in her grim existence and when a charming, if rather middle-aged, customer starts paying her attention she is touched by his gentleness and flattered by his interest. The Leonard Kent reveals that, though a music teacher by day, he plays the piano in a West End club by nights. Thrilled at the imagined glamour of the world in which he moves, Ellie finds herself increasingly drawn to this kindly man whose life seems so far removed from the grind of survival in poverty-stricken Rotherhithe. 312 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.) . Near Fine. Cloth. 2nd Impession. 1996.