# Sadie was a Lady

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- Book: [Sadie was a Lady](https://www.bookquiver.com/joan-jonker/sadie-was-a-lady) ([Sadie was a Lady.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/joan-jonker/sadie-was-a-lady.md))
- Authors: [Joan Jonker](https://www.bookquiver.com/joan-jonker)
- Publisher: headline
- ISBN: 978-07-4725-717-2
- Pages: 1
- Published: 1998-04-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Beautiful, blonde-haired Sadie Wilson suffers abuse from her slovenly mother and lecherous father in order to protect her younger siblings from a similar fate. The neighbours avoid her parents like the plague and Sadie has no friends to turn to for help. But when Harry, the kind-hearted boy next door, sees Sadie crying because her father has lost all their money, he offers to pay her sixpence for a kiss. With coins in her pocket, Sadie goes to Paddy's market to buy underclothes she so desperately needs and it is there that she meets Mary Ann and a lively bunch of Liverpudlian stallholders who are to be her salvation. Even though she is rescued by Mary Ann's friends and starts a new life, Sadie's thoughts still return to her brothers and sisters back at home. And no matter how many admirers she has, there's a place in her heart for just one lad whose kisses she can't seem to forget...