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For The One Who Stayed - Peaky Blinders
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  • Reads 134,979
  • Votes 3,683
  • Parts 17
  • Time 7h 9m
Ongoing, First published Nov 15, 2021
Mature
FOR THE ONE WHO STAYED ─ A peaky blinders fanfiction

━ IN WHICH, Elizabeth Shelby has to come to terms with the fact that sharing a name does not necessarily mean family. 
━ AND IN WHICH, a father and daughter must learn how to find each other again after a traumatic war.

Effy Shelby was somewhat of a firecracker. At least that's what her aunt Polly always called her. 
With raven-black hair, a freckle-covered face, and an unmatched personality, she's unstoppable with the name; Shelby. Being the daughter of the most feared gangster in Birmingham is not as easy as some would think so.
 
― And being one hell of a reckless girl is an especially rough way down the road...
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