Water Gypsies

By Annie Murray

Subjects: England, fiction, Canals, Fiction, general, Fiction, Social conditions, Boat living

Description: 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.