Pit Bank Wench - Hardcover

Hutchinson, Meg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 075051714X ISBN 13: 9780750517140

Publisher: Magna Large Print Books, 2001

Synopsis

Emma Price is only a pit bank wench, but she wins the love of Paul Felton. Colliery owner Carver Felton has no intention of seeing his brother throw away his future on such a humble girl and savagely rapes Emma, leaving her isolated and pregnant. It looks as though she is destined for the workhouse, but she is taken in by kindly Samuel Hollington and his wife, and gives birth to a son. Then when Carver Felton has ruthlessly achieved his business ambitions he needs an heir to the Felton fortune - and determines to track down Emma and her child...

About this title

About the Author

Meg Hutchinson left school at fifteen and didn't return to education until she was thirty-three, when she entered Teacher Training College and studied for her degree in the evenings. Ever since she was a child, she has loved telling stories and writing 'compositions'. She lived for sixty years in Wednesbury, where her parents and grandparents spent all their lives, but now has a quiet little cottage in Shropshire where she can indulge her passion for storytelling.

Review

This tale of jealousy and the power of good over evil races to the final paragraph * Coventry Evening Telegraph * This old-fashioned drama has some wonderful villains and villainesses and at the end the most unlikely hero' * Beverley Guardian (Driffield Post) * Meg fits into a tradition before television when families sat around a fire and told stories. Not epic stories but the tales of their families and friends, an oral history of a place and its people. Her place and people are Wednesbury in the West Midlands. * Guernsey Evening Post * A compelling historical saga of triumph over injustice. [...] Just right for lovers of Catherine Cookson. * Reading Chronicle and Bracknell News * Many bitter tears are shed * Books Magazine * A super tale that lingers long in the memory * Bolton Evening News * There's a tear in every chapter * Steve Craggs, Northern Echo * Meg fits into a tradition before television when families sat around a fire and told stories. Not epic stories but the tales of their families and friends, an oral history of a place and its people. Her place and people are Wednesbury in the West Midlands. * Guernsey Evening Post * This tale of jealousy and the power of good over evil races to the final paragraph. * Coventry Evening Telegraph * A compelling historical saga of triumph over injustice ... Just right for lovers of Catherine Cookson. * Reading Chronicle and Bracknell News * A super tale that lingers long in the memory. * Bolton Evening News * There's a tear in every chapter. * Northern Echo *

About this edition

• Publisher: Magna Large Print Books
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 075051714X
• ISBN 13: 9780750517140
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 448