A Ration Book Victory

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This is the most recent book written by Jean Fullerton who has written a series of books about the lives of an East End family who are known as the Brogans. The stories take place during the second world war , they are now getting near the end of the war and the families are getting rather weary of it all. To add to their troubles, their lifelong friend and local Priest has been taken seriously ill and they fear he could die. A Ration Book Victory takes the reader back in time , both to the East End in 1945 and then back even further to Ireland in the nineteenth century. This is because two of the main characters in the story met in Ireland as children. These two characters are Queenie Brogan and Father Patrick Mahone. Queenie was not always known by this name because her real name is Philomena and her maiden name was Dooley. Patrick was a farmer`s son. Philomena and Patrick first set eyes on each other while attending a church service with their families. They became friends and then sweethearts, but their love was not meant to be. They met several years later when Queenie moved to the East End with her husband and Patrick was the Priest of their neighbourhood. So after knowing each other for many decades it comes as a shock to Queenie when Patrick is taken ill and she realises how much he has meant to her over the years.