Daughters of Liverpool by Annie Groves

Author:Annie Groves [Groves, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780007287888
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2008-03-16T00:00:00+00:00

‘I don’t know why you want to keep that ruddy kid. He can’t do anything. Like I’ve said before, he can’t even speak.’

‘You leave him alone, and don’t go raising your voice to him either; you’re frightening the life out of him,’ Emily told Con sharply.

Con scowled. The recent bombing had meant a drop in people coming to the theatre and only this morning he’d had the lead female singer’s understudy flounce off in a huff after having exchanged words with the lead singer.

‘You promised me that I’d be on stage,’ she had screamed at Con when she had accosted him in his office. ‘You know you did, you rotten liar, so don’t you go saying that you didn’t.’

The lead singer, who had been walking past at the time, had put her head round the door to say tauntingly, ‘He tells them all that, love, when he wants to get into their drawers, don’t you, Con? More fool you if you were daft enough to believe it.’

Con had only just managed to dodge the heavy ashtray the understudy, a blonde with a redhead’s temper, had hurled at him.

With box office receipts down, and Emily still refusing to open her purse strings, Con was beginning to get desperate. He’d convinced himself that she’d grow tired of having that idiot boy around long before now, but if anything Emily seemed to have grown even more fiercely protective of the child she still insisted on claiming was related to her through some dead cousin or other.

In desperation Con had sent Kieran off to Blackpool to scout around and see, first, what the deal was with these dance contests, and secondly, if he could set up some kind of joint deal with one of the Blackpool theatres that would benefit them both, whilst of course benefiting Con himself more.

Emily wasn’t going to have Con, or anyone else for that matter, calling little Tommy an idiot because he wasn’t. He understood everything that was said to him perfectly. Emily was worried about him, though.

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