Family Ties on Beamer Street (Beamer Street #3) by Sheila Riley
Genre: Historical fiction, Sagas
Read: 5th January 2025
Published: 3rd January 2025
★★★★ 4 stars
DESCRIPTION:
Set against the backdrop of The General Strike difficult lines have to be crossed…
Liverpool May 1926
Peggy and Dar Tenant’s dream for security and respectability has been their driving force since they married. Just as they prepare to buy their own home, tragedy strikes, when Dar is involved in a devastated accident at the docks and Peggy’s world crashes around her.
With Dar seriously ill in hospital Peggy’s reduced to scrimping and saving to keep a roof over her family’s head having to revisit the hardships of her youth that she dearly wanted to escape from.
As summer days turn to winter the overwhelming struggle begins to take its toll and Peggy is forced to swallow her pride, as the good people of Beamer Street come to her rescue. She also seeks help from her formidable sister, Violet, little knowing that Violet holds a dark secret that has cast a shadow over Peggy’s whole life.
Love, lies and recriminations will be uncovered as Peggy tries to pick up the pieces of her shattered life, and finally reconcile the shadows of her past?
Perfect for fans of Chrissie Walsh, Katie Flynn and Dilly Court.
MY THOUGHTS:
Dreams of a better life...
The third book in the Beamer Street series sees 1926 and Peggy Tenant face a new wave of challenges leading to different way of life she never thought possible. Marrying the love of her life, Dar Tenant, when she was just sixteen years old, Peggy and Dar endeavoured to put a little money away each week to save up and buy the house in which they have lived for the past seventeen years since they were wed. Dar has a good job as a stevedore on the docks with Huttons Logistics even if Henry Hutton himself was a stingy toff.
But now the day has come when this afternoon, all the money they had saved for the past seventeen years stashed in a suitcase under the bed, Peggy and Dar were off to buy their own home. At last, their family would have the security they could only dream of.
And then tragedy strikes. On the very day they are to buy their house, Dar has a nasty accident at work leaving him with a fractured skull and femur. And the cause of the accident is nowhere to be seen, having scarpered drunk on job before he could be found out. Miles Houseman, Hutton's spoilt and entitled nephew, was operating the crane hauling hessian sacks of sugar when it was clear the load was going to spill. Everyone tried shouting to warn Houseman who was oblivious and Dar jumped in to save the young lad who was in danger of being knocked flying. The end result was Dar's injuries seeing him in hospital and rehabilitation for months. But Dar assured her all would be well when his sick pay comes through, to which he'd been contributing for the past eight years against such an occurrence.
With four mouths to feed and rent to pay, Peggy refused to accept any kind of charity, no matter how well meant it was. And so she had no choice but to take up her elder sister Violet's offer of ship cleaning. It was hard work but the money was more than Dar brought home from the docks. And she found she actually enjoyed the work and the banter with the women. It even gave her a new appreciation for Violet.
For better or worse, Peggy refuses to give up and is determined to restore their home to what it was before Dar's injury. So that when he came home, he would have the home comforts once again and the family ties that bind them together.
Another heartwarming quick read that I devoured in a day. I enjoyed meeting up with the folk of Beamer Street again though it has been a while. And I look forward to meeting up with them again soon.
I would like to thank #SheilaRiley, #Netgalley and #BoldwoodBooks for an ARC of #FamilyTiesOnBeamerStreet in exchange for an honest review.
MEET THE AUTHOR:
Married to her knight in rusty armour, Tony, she has three grown-up children, five adored grandchildren, a majestic German Shepherd called Max and an insatiably energetic Siberian Husky called Louis and an ancient cat called Missy.
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