And of course, no acknowledgement is ever complete without giving my thanks to my very special readers, especially to those who follow me on Facebook and my web page. Each and every one of you brings so much to me. Your eagerness for every book is such an encouragement, seeing me through many hours of writing. Your help with promoting me and my books is invaluable, too. I wish I could name you all. Without each and every one of you, there would be no ‘Author Mary Wood’. You help me to achieve my dream. Thank you.

My love to you all x

The Wronged Daughter

Mary Wood was born in Maidstone, Kent, and brought up in Claybrooke, Leicestershire. Born one of fifteen children to a middle-class mother and an East End barrow boy, Mary’s family were poor but rich in love. This encouraged her to develop a natural empathy with the less fortunate and a fascination with social history. In 1989 Mary was inspired to pen her first novel and she is now a full-time novelist.

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BY MARY WOOD

The Breckton series

To Catch a Dream

An Unbreakable Bond

Tomorrow Brings Sorrow

Time Passes Time

The Generation War saga

All I Have to Give

In Their Mother’s Footsteps

The Girls Who Went to War series

The Forgotten Daughter

The Abandoned Daughter

The Wronged Daughter

Stand-alone novels

Proud of You

Brighter Days Ahead

The Street Orphans

First published 2019 by Pan Books

This electronic edition first published 2019 by Pan Books

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ISBN 978-1-5098-9259-4

Copyright © Gaskin Hinckley Ltd 2019

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