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All I Have to Give

Mary Wood was born in Maidstone, Kent, and brought up in Claybrooke, Leicestershire. The thirteenth child of fifteen born to a middle-class mother and an East End barrow boy,
she had a childhood that was a mixture of love and poverty. This encouraged her to develop a natural empathy with the less fortunate and a fascination with social history.

Throughout her life Mary has held various posts in catering and office roles, and in the probation services, while bringing up her four children. She now has numerous grandchildren,
step-grandchildren and great-grandchildren. An avid reader, she first put pen to paper in 1989 whilst nursing her mother through her last months, but didn’t become successful until she began
self-publishing her novels in the late 2000s.

Mary now lives in Blackpool, but spends six months of the year in Spain, where she does most of her writing.

Mary welcomes interaction with readers on her Facebook page:
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, and on Twitter:
@Authormary

BY MARY WOOD

The Breckton novels

To Catch a Dream

An Unbreakable Bond

Tomorrow Brings Sorrow

Time Passes Time

All I Have to Give

Judge Me Not

First published 2015 by Pan Books

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