Product Description

Alena Townsen wants nothing more than to spend the rest of her life with her childhood friend, Rob, the only son of James Hollinthwaite, a wealthy landowner. Hollinthwaite, however, has other ideas and when he forces the two to part, they run away together and join a wandering group of coppicers, naively thinking they can stay hidden for ever.
But they are discovered and Rob is sent away to school while Alena has to start work in the local bobbin mill. Life there is hard and her love for Rob severely tested with the arrival of the coppicer's son who becomes the mill's new foreman.
Torn between the two men, Alena follows her heart and chooses her true love, Rob, but they have to fight despotism and bigotry in their quest for happiness together.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #358999 in Books
• Published on: 1998-11-05
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Westmoreland Gazette
'Real people and real dramas are her mainstay'

Review
'One of her best Lakeland stories [...] it is a tale of past secrets and a search for happiness of thwarted love and conflictiong loyalties, of ruthless power and a village community faced with far-reaching disruption.' (Keswick Reminder )

'Real people and real dramas are her mainstay' (Westmoreland Gazette )

'An entertaining saga' (Manchester Evening News )

About the Author
Freda Lightfoot was born and brought up in the mill towns of Lancashire. She has been a teacher, bookseller and smallholder but began her writing career by publishing over forty short stories and articles and five historical romances. She has a flat in the Lake District and a house in a small mountain village in Spain.

Customer Reviews

A Page-turning read
From page one I found it very difficult to put this book down. The characters are so real, the situations are tender, dramatic, heart-rending, everything you would expect to find in a good romance along with the interesting detail of the running of a bobbin mill and the art of forestry. Descriptions of the forest and its wildlife are visual and heart-warming. The book has a very unexpected twist in the story of Alena and Rob, the two main characters. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a good read.