Water Gypsies
by Annie Murray
It is 1942, and after a tough childhood in Birmingham, Maryann Bartholomew has built a happy life with her husband and children working the canals on a narrowboat. But hard work and constant child bearing take their toll, and the death of a friend and another pregnancy lead her to a desperate act.
Fiction, generalEngland, fictionSocial conditionsCanalsBoat livingFiction