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The lives of the prominent Emerson family--John, a successful solicitor and respected family man, Ann, his cold and distant wife, and Laurie, their handsome son--are changed forever when struggling young widow Cissie Thorpe and her son Pat enter their lives
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'Catherine Cookson's novels are about hardship, the intractability of life and of individuals, the struggle first to survive and next to make sense of one's survival. Humour, toughness, resolution and generosity are Cookson virtues, in a world which she often depicts as cold and violent. Her novels are weighted and driven by her own early experiences of illegitimacy and poverty. This is what gives them power. In the specialised world of women's popular fiction, Cookson has created her own territory' - Helen Dunmore, The Times
John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife, a son, friends, but he was isolated from all the people and events about him by the tragedy of his past. Then he met Cissie, and for the first time his loneliness eased a little.
Cissie was everything his wife Ann was not. She was warm, and compassionate, and generous. And she was quick to sense the needs of a desolate, unhappy man.
But Cissie was also a young widow: poor, and with a young son to support. And John Emmerson was one of the town's leading solicitors--a man of importance whose every move was watched by the local dignitaries...
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- PublisherG K Hall & Co
- ISBN 10 081615046X
- ISBN 13 9780816150465
- BindingPaperback
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