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When Maggie Riley becomes pregnant at fifteen she is delighted, for it means she has captured her Jim Burns But life is a constant struggle - to bring up four sons, to cope with a part-time husband, to 'better herself' This is set against critical events of the period the Depression, the Blackshirt marches, the devastation of World War II and its aftermath