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First tagged "historical novel" by Cate "Cate"
Full Specification tags: historical romance, victorian era, audrey howard, historical novel, historical fiction, strong heroine, victorian england, victorian romance, catherine cookson, rosie harris
Product Description
When housemaid Martha began an event with her Master's son, Lucien, a destiny Earl of Marchwood, it was always unfailing to finish badly. Single, profound and unemployed, Martha struggles to forge a new life for herself and her daughter, usually for Lucien to inadvertently destroy it. She and her daughter are homeless and starving when they come to a assist of a male who proves to be their salvation. Lucien is still spooky with his mislaid love, a usually lady who has ever deserted him. A possibility assembly 7 years after could spell disaster though can they put their pain and honour behind them and seize this opportunity, or will aged ghosts hurt their final possibility during happiness?
Product Details
- Published on: 2012-02-15
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
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About a Author
Cat Winchester was innate in East Anglia. After her wanderlust finally abated, she staid in Edinburgh with her family and 3 dogs.
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3 of 4 people found a following examination helpful.
By Mimi P
I favourite story. This book was opposite from a books that we routinely examination in that a adore story apportionment customarily started during about median into it. Even yet there was flattering many no adore story in a initial half of a book, we was still meddlesome in reading about a Martha and Lucian's lives and how they overcame hardships. It was good to examination about their lives and how they became friends again and afterwards business partners and eventually got their happy ending. It is value a read.
2 of 3 people found a following examination helpful.
By Margot M
I've turn a bit of a fan of Miss Winchester lately; we feel that she has guarantee as a author of chronological fiction.
Her characters are all plausible and never seem far-fetched. It did seem astray that her awful father was rewarded for his sins with income though afterwards in those days, small else could have been done.
Wives and children were a man's security in those dim times and he could flattering many provide them as he wanted and a law would always be on his side!
The authorities would never have given caring and control of a family to a singular mother, so Martha had few options.
Personally, I'd have shot him though that's another story...
0 of 1 people found a following examination helpful.
By Jrzin
The book was only opposite adequate from a standard intrigue and/or Victorian that we favourite it though being means to brand accurately why. we know it is since a characters and situations seem some-more genuine than such genres customarily do - maybe since 3 (four, five, substantially six) of a many vital characters are meditative for themselves though it being blatently forked that they are meditative for themselves. we also like a accumulation in personalities among a characters (including though singular to that some don't consider for themselves though they do so only like people of currently do so). Even a teenager characters are distinct, memorable, and believable.
There are a few imperfections. we beheld a "flower" instead of "flour" too, though seriously, such mistakes were few and distant between. There was a time or dual nearby a finish of a book where we suspicion a thread of a story didn't unequivocally work though again, it was some-more like wanting only a hold some-more polishing than anything unequivocally distracting.
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