The fortunes and misfortunes of the famous Moll Flanders who was born in Newgate, and during a life of continued variety for three-score years, besides her childhood, was twelve year a whore, five times a wife (where of once to her own brother), twelve year a thief, eight year a transported felon in Virginia at last grew rich, lived honest, and died a penitent.
The third novel in Annie Murray's "Birmingham" series. While Genie's father is away fighting in World War II, her mother has a ruinous affair which leaves her pregnant; Genie's little brother leaves, never to return; while Genie herself meets a man who then disappears to war.