Deaf since infancy, Nellie had a secret so huge that is amused her. Across the road at number 1, Nellie Hulme, trapped in a world of silence, watched the other two Saturday girls. So Beth was delighted when a personable man began to court Magsy. This was, after all, the 20th century, gone were the days when a woman stayed at home to mind her family. Beth, however, wanted the normal life a brother, a sister, a stepfather who might make her wonderful mother happy. Her goal was simple- Beth would become a doctor. Nothing was to divert her from her gruelling schedule. Pursued by men who admired her great beauty, she was determined to remain a widow. Ruth Hamilton is the bestselling author of A Whisper to the Living, With Love from Ma Maguire, Nest of Sorrows, Billy London's Girls, Spinning Jenny, The September Starlings, A Crooked Mile, Paradise Lane, The Bells of Scotland Road, The Dream Sellers, The Corner House, Miss Honoria West and Mulligan's Yard. Magsy O'Gara, her husband killed in the way, plodded through her daily routine as a hospital cleaner, dedicating all her spare time to Beth, her genius daughter. Saturday's child works hard for a living And so they did three females, one born in the 19th century, two in the 20th, each a worker, each driven by that unseen hand which shapes destiny, every one of them born on a Saturday.
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