Miss Purdy'S Class -Special Sales

b" An astounding new novel from the author of the bestselling Birmingham sagas,\nCHOCOLATE GIRLS and WATER GYPSIES \n\n In the New Year of 1936, Gwen Purdy, aged 21, leaves her home to become a\nschoolteacher in a poor area of Birmingham. Her parents are horrified, but she\nhas the support of her fiance, a recently ordained clergyman. Her early weeks in\nBirmingham are an eye-opener: at the school she faces a class of 52 children,\nsome of whose homes are among Birmingham's very poorest. One of the teachers,\nthe elderly Miss Drysdale, proves an inspiration, and Gwen begins to understand\nthe appalling hardships endured by the "