With Love From Ma Maguire

Hamilton, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0552136166 / ISBN 13: 9780552136167

Published by Corgi, London, 1990

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Some reading and cover creases, some sunning to slightly cocked spine, light shelf wear, small sticker tear and some scorch marks to rear cover with associated scorching to top part of later leaves, ink stamp to rear endpaper, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Fourth printing of Corgi mass market edition, 1996. Reading copy only, no names inside. Wrap around cover design and artwork uncredited. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 544 pages; From the very first meeting of Philly Maguire and Richard Swainbank, a pattern of overpowering love, conflict, hatred, and secrecy was born. For although Philly and Richard were on opposite sides of the mill floor, they recognised - both of them - that they were equally matched in strength of character and the capacity for overwhelming sexual passion. Thus began the forty years of conflict between the two families - the Swainbanks, cushioned by wealth but tearing each other to pieces with the violence of their emotions - and the Maguires, proud, betrayed, and led by the vibrant and magnificent Philly. A major saga of the Lancashire cotton mills - of the strong, violent, real people who both owned them, and worked in them - and of the dangerous things that love can do to families throughout the generations. Mass Market PB.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: With Love From Ma Maguire
• Publisher: Corgi, London
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0552136166
• ISBN 13: 9780552136167
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: Reprint; Fourth Printing.
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

This is a saga spanning 40 years of life in the Lancashire cotton mills. It tells of the lives and loves of two families from different backgrounds. The unhappy Swainbanks, cushioned by wealth but tortured by emotional conflict come to need the Maguires, especially Ma Maguire, more and more.

About the Author

Ruth Hamilton is the bestselling author of A Whisper to the Living, With Love From Ma Maguire, Nest of Sorrows, Billy London's Girls, Spinning Jenny, The September Starlings, A Crooked Mile, Paradise Lane, The Bells of Scotland Road, The Dream Sellers, The Corner House, Miss Honoria West, Mulligan's Yard, Saturday's Child, Matthew and Son and Chandler's Green. She has become one of the north-west of England's most popular writers. Ruth Hamilton was born in Bolton, which is the setting for many of her novels, and has spent most of her life in Lancashire. She now lives in Liverpool.