Ruby

Product Description

The Mac Lean family has more than their fair share of secrets. They live in a close-knit community on Glasgows High Street & the men work on the railways. Theyre hard-working ordinary respectable people but behind the facade they are a family in crisis. Ruby Mac Lean has to face a personal crisis just as the Second World War is about to start. Shes seventeen pregnant & forced to marry Gerry Reilly a railway worker whose main aim in life is drinking heavily whenever he can. As their daughter is born Gerry joins up & heads off to war leaving Ruby to cope alone with a new baby & a family falling apart at the seams. & when her mother dies & the family secrets start to unravel Ruby has to find the strength to build a new life for herself & her daughter. Many years later retired & living quietly by the sea Ruby discovers there were more secrets in her family than she could ever have imagined. As she discovers the final pieces in her family jigsaw & uncovers a tale of secrets & lies that the could never have suspected shes left reeling from shock.