The Sweethearts: Tales of love, laughter and hardship from the Yorkshire Rowntree's girls

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Lynn Russell. The Sweethearts: Tales of love, laughter and hardship from the Yorkshire Rowntree's girls

Contents

Prologue

Picture Section

1. Madge

2. Florence

3. Madge

4. Florence

5. Madge

6. Florence

7. Eileen

8. Madge

9. Dorothy

10. Florence

11. Dorothy

12. Eileen

13. Maureen

14. Dorothy

15. Maureen

Epilogue

Rowntree’s Timeline

Acknowledgements

Copyright

About the Publisher

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For Madge, Florence, Eileen, Dorothy and Maureen

Title Page

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In her gas-fuelled dreams, Madge had been seeing herself as a piece of confectionery on the Rowntree’s production line. ‘I was coming down this chute,’ she said. ‘And I saw you at the end of the chute waiting for me.’ She tried to sit up but was still very groggy. Her mouth tasted foul and as she probed with her tongue, she felt the soft fleshy cavities in her gums where the two teeth had been removed. The dental nurse had meanwhile steered Rose back to the waiting room while the dentist made a final check of Madge’s mouth.

‘Everything’s fine,’ he said. ‘They’ll heal up perfectly well, but don’t eat or drink anything until teatime and, tempting though it is, don’t keep testing the cavities with your tongue, because if you do, they’ll start bleeding again. And Miss Fisher? If you don’t want to be coming back to see me again, you need to take better care of those teeth. Brush them twice a day, morning and night, and don’t eat so many toffees.’

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