Product Description

Francine Champion loves her life working as a mechanic at her uncle’s Leicester garage. But when Eddie Taylor starts seeing her best friend, Stella, Frankie can’t help feeling uneasy. Eddie’s certainly charming, but Frankie can see he’s a bad lot. She's shocked, then, when she finds out it's she, Frankie, that Eddie wants. Within days he's broken up her relationship with her steady boyfriend, ruined her friendship with Stella and started pursuing her so relentlessly that before she knows it, Frankie has agreed to marry Eddie. After a year the marriage is going well and Frankie can't think why she had doubts about her husband. But she should have trusted her first instincts, because Eddie is far more dangerous than she ever imagined...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #199166 in Books
• Published on: 2002-01-07
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 448 pages

Coventry Evening Telegraph
'It's a story to grip you from the first page to the last' Coventry Evening Telegraph

Review
'Heartwarming Leicester-based '50s saga of working folk and their passions. She's good' Bookseller (the Bookseller )

'It's a story to grip you from the first page to the last' Coventry Evening Telegraph (Coventry Evening Telegraph )

From the Author
Thank you for buying my latest release, All or Nothing. I hope it gives you as much pleasure to read as it did me to write it. I came up with the idea of the setting for the story one bitterly cold morning as I waited in a garage for a diagnosis on my ailing car. Getting colder by the second I watched a car being hoisted on a ramp and commented to a mechanic that he was lucky pits were no longer used. He readily agreed saying they could be very lethal places if the mechanic wasn't careful. My writer's mind sprang into action. The dark, dank recesses of a pit would make a brilliant place for a murder, I thought. In fact what scope a backstreet garage in the 1950's would give me as a background setting for a story. I hope you agree.

With my very best regards

Lynda Page December 2001

Customer Reviews

A story about friendship and family loyalty
" All or Nothing" by Linda Page

This tells the tale of two friends Frankie and Stella, whose friendship and love lives are destroyed by the arrival of Eddie Taylor. He pretends to be a rich business man but really he wants money for himself and comes from a rough family of jail birds and the only form of work ho knows is dealing in stolen and dodgy goods!

He is under the misapprehension from Stella that Frankie is in line to inherit a garage, which is a thriving business from her Father. When it is actually her Uncle who owns the Garage.

He finds this out after he has swept Frankie off her feet with his charm and married her quickly and quietly without anyone else knowing. Stella who had fallen for Eddie too felt that Frankie had "stolen" him from her and stopped speaking to Frankie. Her current boyfriend was stunned and moved away from the area but Frankie was happy with Eddie. He maintained that his family had disowned him without a penny because he had married Frankie. He worked in the garage and they rented a house together but Eddie was always looking for an opportunity to break away. He started going out with Stella behind Frankie's back but when she found out they had a row and she fell and lost the baby she was carrying.

While she was in hospital he tried to steal money out of the garage safe but was caught by Frankie's uncle but he fought him off and killed him. Leaving things as they were it looked like a break in and when her uncle's will was read he had left his bungalow and business to Frankie. She had no desire to go back to the garage so Eddie ran it and used it as a cover to make money through illegal deals...