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Victor Pemberton
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Jayne
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Synopsis
Mary Trimble doesn't have a penny to her name, and life has been hard since her parents were killed in an air raid two years ago. It's up to her to look after her two young sisters, little brother and elderly granddad. Mary works as an usherette at the Marlborough cinema in the Holloway Road, but her dream is to escape the horrors of London and take her family on a long charabanc trip to some faraway place -- the famous Blue Coach from Victoria Coach Station to Devon. But little does she know her dream will come at a tragic price...
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Victor Pemberton is a genius at writing stories in and around the war years. Every one that comes out is based in and around London and you can smell the atmosphere because he can put the sights and the sounds of Old London Town down so well on paper.
I can still remember the Blue Buses that used to travel on those routes down to the west country; Which today we all know as the National Express Coaches. From little dreams a great and thriving industry. I can feel the excitement of Mary as she and her family have the chance to enjoy as proper holiday and not the traditional trip to Southend.
This story warms the cockles of your heart, the loss of family, the making of new friends and new jobs. As in today, it is the case of being in the right spot at the right time, as Mary was to get the job at the picture house.So the story twists and turns till its conclusion.
Victor Pemberton is a brilliant author and what he does not know about London, I would think is not worth knowing. How he has managed to find the time to write all these books and be involved in television and radio amazes me. But I still say give us more, because back in those years people did really know their neighbours and cared what happened to them.
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