by Annie Murray · Pan Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781447283980
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«The Doorstep Child» is the family saga novel by Annie Murray, published by Pan Books in paperback (528 pages, in English).
Evie spends her childhood abandoned on her doorstep, with an alcoholic father and a neglectful mother. Her friend Gary and the dog Whisky keep her company until she is sixteen, when she meets Ken and her first love turns into a new betrayal. It is a story of overcoming adversity in search of the affection and security she has always wanted.
The novel is set between Birmingham and Canada in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Annie Murray is also the author of the Chocolate Girls series.
For readers of family sagas and historical romances; Evie's difficult childhood shapes her search for a home.
Annie Murray is an English writer, best known for series about women and children in war time and for her bestselling novels featuring the Cadbury factory in Bournville, Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter and many others. Her novel, Where Earth Meets Sky (2007), was nominated for Romantic Historical Novel of the Year by the Romantic Novelists Association. Her latest novel, The Pearl Button Girl, was published in 2025.
