A Mother's Shame

<h2><strong>A new standalone novel from the bestselling author Rosie Clarke.</strong></h2><p><br></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>East End of London</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Maggie Bailey has not had an easy childhood. Her father Michael always too easy with his fists after spending the family's rent money down the pub.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Just sixteen in love and blinded by promises Maggie sees marriage to handsome Jack as her great escape. However she soon finds herself abandoned with a beautiful baby when Jack disappears. Maggie is forced to seek a new life away from the East End of London and finds herself a job at a hotel in Eastbourne.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Here she must learn to fend for herself and also accept a shocking discovery that she was fostered as a babe and nothing is known of her real parents.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Her employer Aunt Beth is kind and her life improves - but Maggie makes one mistake after another and eventually they lead to a terrible tragedy that will bring her to the point of no return.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>Will Maggie ever find true happiness and discover the secret of her birth?</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(36 33 30 1)>PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED as ALL MY SINS. </strong></p>