Product Description

Raped and left pregnant by her drunken father, Anna Bradley knows she must abandon her baby and make a new life if her son is to have a future. As luck would have it, she is befriended by Maggie Fellen, and under her gruff but tender care, Anna builds up a successful business, and even finds a measure of happiness with Edward Royce. The happiness does not last: tragedy - and a cruel man - rob her of both husband and livelihood and once more she must rebuild her fortune. But Anna can never forget her firstborn; and when Fate leads her back to Wednesbury, it is to a confrontation that could break - or mend - her heart.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #415103 in Books
• Published on: 1997-05-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 420 pages

Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph
Praise for Abel's Daughter:
'A compelling saga in Cookson style'

Review
Praise for Abel's Daughter: 'A compelling saga in Cookson style' (Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph )

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. Telling stories and writing compositions have been part of Meg’s life since a child and she now indulges this passion in a little cottage in Shropshire.

Customer Reviews

Gripping and Dramatic
Calling Saga Fans everywhere! This is one book which you have to read. Meg Hutchinson has penned a gripping saga that's engrossingly gripping and unputdownable and that is bursting at its seams with passion, drama and emotion. The saga opens in Wednesbury, where Jos Bradly having consumed a lot of alcohol after the village decided that he had was a rapist and a murderer, rapes Anna Bradly in a midst of drunken anger. Anna produces a child and soon she and her child are being verbally abused. Deciding that there is nothing left in Wednesbury, she leaves for Coseley where with the help of Maggie Fellen she sets up a successful business after her husband is killed brutally. However, though she cannot enjoy her new-found success for there is one man who wants to destroy her. However though there are other problems which Anna must face. Meg Hutchinson has managed to write a saga that tugs at the heartstings with an ending so poignant that it will leave you in tears.

Pure brilliance
This is a moving novel telling the story of a young girl's heartache and the years she spends rebuilding her life after being raped. It is compelling and extremely moving, an absolute must read!

For the sake of her child
An unforgetable book. Pick it up in the morning and didn't put it down until i'd finished it at night. One of the best books Meg Hutchinson has written