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Edwardian Liverpool – the greatest port in the Empire, a sprawling, brawling city of poverty and wealth, slum tenements and civic pride, vice and hard-won respectability.
Mara O’Shaughnessy, eighth of thirteen children, longs to escape from the crowded tumult of her family. Her sister Caitlin, quiet but determined, is already, to her mother’s horror, involved with the suffragettes.
Woodall Park, two-thousand-acre home of Elizabeth Woodall and her parents, could be a million miles away. With their neighbours, the Osbornes of Beechwood Hall, they live their lives of servanted ease, country pursuits and suitable marriages.
Yet, in the golden years before World War I, Liverpool Irish and English gentry are to become fatefully, passionately entangled.
‘Her thousands of fans recognise the artistry of a true storyteller’ Lancashire Life
Mara O’Shaughnessy, eighth of thirteen children, longs to escape from the crowded tumult of her family. Her sister Caitlin, quiet but determined, is already, to her mother’s horror, involved with the suffragettes.
Woodall Park, two-thousand-acre home of Elizabeth Woodall and her parents, could be a million miles away. With their neighbours, the Osbornes of Beechwood Hall, they live their lives of servanted ease, country pursuits and suitable marriages.
Yet, in the golden years before World War I, Liverpool Irish and English gentry are to become fatefully, passionately entangled.
‘Her thousands of fans recognise the artistry of a true storyteller’ Lancashire Life
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Her thousands of fans recognise the artistry of a true storyteller
Poignant and well plotted, this is the book to curl up with to shut out troubles
This saga is, like all of Audrey Howard's books, compelling and memorable . . . a joy to read.
A compelling and well-paced tale
A fast-moving glorious story . . . The story twists and turns. As ever, Audrey Howard treats us to lovely details . . . It is so sad, sweet and lively too . . . Another true gem.
Howard's timeless story of love and betrayal is sure to enchant her army of loyal readers