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Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue: The Story of An Accidental Family Book

150 Station Road, Wheeldon Mill - a short stride across the Chesterfield Canal in the heart of Derbyshire - was home to the Nash family and their corner shop, serving a small mining community with everything from Brasso to Dolly Blue, from cheap dress rings to Lemon Sherbets. However, this was no ordinary home and no ordinary family. Three generations were adopted - Lynn Knight's great grandfather, a fairground boy given away when his parents left for America in 1865, her great aunt, rescued from an Industrial School in 1909, and her mother, adopted in London as a baby and brought north in 1930. Their story spans centuries and the changing society of twentieth century Britain. But more than that it is a story of community and of love. Full of colour, light and life, Lemon Sherbet & Dolly Blue is a story of what it really means to be family.Read More

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    150 Station Road Wheeldon Mill - a short stride across the Chesterfield Canal in the heart of Derbyshire - was home to the Nash family and their corner shop which served a small mining community with everything from Brasso and Dolly Blue to cheap dress rings and bright sugary sweets. But just as this was no ordinary home theirs was no ordinary family. Lynn Knight tells the remarkable story of the three adoptions within it: of her great-grandfather a fairground boy given away when his parents left for America in 1865; of her great-aunt rescued from an Industrial School in 1909 and of her mother adopted as a baby in 1930 and brought to Chesterfield from London. Full of light life and colour spanning three generations and two world wars this memoir weaves a rich portrait of a community and of family love and loyalty regardless of blood ties.

  • Waterstones

    It is said that you can't choose your relatives but some of Lynn Knight's family did. Three generations were adopted, and adopted in three distinct ways. Lemon Sherbet and Dolly Blue tells their extraordinary story.

  • 1848874170
  • 9781848874176
  • Lynn Knight
  • 1 May 2012
  • Atlantic Books
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 272
  • Main
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