Jacqueline Cox

Girl on the Edge Jacqueline Cox

The sequel to Girl With a Suitcase finds Jackie a teenager, pregnant and alone. With no family to turn to, Jackie is forced into yet another institution-not a school but a home for single mothers-to-be. Shamed and shunned by society, the young girls there are expected to give up their babies for adoption. But it's now the beginning of the 1960s and times are changing. Jackie belongs to a new generation of women, and she is determined to keep her baby. What's more, she vows to make a success of being a mother. Without the help of parents or grandparents, with no husband, nowhere to live and no job, how will she do it