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|title=Custard Tarts and Broken Hearts

|author=Mary Gibson

|publisher=Head of Zeus

|date=January 2014

|website=http://www.katehordern.co.uk/content/MaryGibson

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|summary=The story of factory worker Nellie Clark and how her fortunes change during the years before and during the Great War.

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In the tinder-dry summer of 1911 the factory workers of Bermondsey are about to ignite the flame of change, leading to the great ''Summer of Unrest''. Inspired by the dock workers’ strike, scores of dissatisfied female workers take to the streets in protest, demanding better working conditions and equal pay. Nellie Clark, who works in Duff’s custard factory, is entranced by the charismatic revolutionary Ted Bosher and is swept along in the fervour, enthusiastically joining her workmates in the protest. When the heat of the day dies down, however, she is reminded of the stark reality that her wages are needed to feed her starving siblings. How will her drunken, violent father react when he finds out what she has done?

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