Free (Kindle/Kobo/iTunes UK) Polly's Pride [1920s Manchester Family Saga Drama Novel]

[ATDrake]

Polly's Pride by Freda Lightfoot (a Sunday Times bestselling author for her family sagas, according to her bio-blurb) is the 1st in her Polly's Journey series of historical literary family drama novels set in 1920s Manchester, starring the eponymous working-class heroine struggling to keep her family together in the wake of her husband's sudden unemployment, free courtesy of publisher Harlequin's (well, technically their Mills & Boon UK daughter-clone's) Mira imprint, which usually publishes their thrillers and dramas and non-primarily-romantic titles which don't fit into the other dedicated lines.

Currently free @ Amazon UK, iTunes UK, & Kobo (available to the UK and also Ireland when I spot-checked iTunes, but not in the other EU stores which often also get the UK freebies, though YMMV), and possibly also Google Play UK/IE. Price-drop-check linkage for B&N UK, which usually gets these eventually.

Unlikely to cross the pond as apparently this doesn't even exist in the same edition in Oceania or North America.

Description
From brief riches to rural rags and ruin… 1920s, Manchester.

Living in the deprived area of Ancoats area of Manchester Polly Pride feels more fortunate than most until her husband Matthew loses his job and her life is thrown into turmoil. With no money coming in Polly must act to keep her family from starvation. In a desperate gamble she sells all the family goods and buys a handcart, from which she sells second-hand rugs and carpets.

But struggling to deal with poverty and her husband’s hurt pride are only the start of her problems. For when tragedy strikes Polly has to do battle with the bigotry of a sour brother-in-law to keep herself and her family from falling apart. A stirring, heartrending story of love, passion, duty and family, set in the 1920s as the Second World War looms.