A Time to Love

by Beryl Kingston

Ellen Murphy was born to a world of rotting slums and starving children. Determined to escape from poverty and her drunken Irish father, she takes a job as a shop girl on Shoreditch High Street. David Cheifitz is the only son of devout Jewish parents, David has grown up with his future mapped out. But he is an artist and a rebel. When he falls in love with Ellen Murphy, he turns his back on the old ways. But as time passes, life starts to get in the religious differences, rejection by David's parents and domestic strife throw up barriers between the newlyweds. It is only when David is drawn into the Great War do they realise how precious their marriage is and by then it may be too late.

479 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1991

Reviews

[David Kokkandathil · Rating 5 out of 5]

nothing!!

[Fatima Zahra · Rating 5 out of 5]

I absolutely loved this book

[Haneen · Rating 4 out of 5]

It took me quite a long time to finish this story, interesting as it was, i only got to read it on the road while going to school,many times i kept thinking that it was too predictable and all, but a classic nevertheless... today while reading the last few pages it made me cry, a happy ending, but all packed up so soon, this dilemma that was the point of the plot could have been avoided by just Ellen converting, WHY WON'T YOU CONVERT DAMMIT i kept saying, meh,i'd give this book three and a half or four stars.

[Sheena · Rating 2 out of 5]

Can't really remember this. My tastes sure have changed since the Eighties. Not sagas!