Product Description

Having suffered much cruelty at the hands of her father, Isabel Kenton is shocked to hear after his death that he was not her real father. She inherits their house while her twin brother Mark is left the family steel works. When World War I breaks out, Mark joins the RAF, and the management of the business is left in Isabel’s hands, which is not welcomed by the town’s industrialists. She makes many enemies and has to struggle to keep her business alive. After much unhappiness, she finally finds love with the manager of a local foundry as well as the identity of her real father.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #296684 in Books
• Published on: 1999-06-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 378 pages

Books Magazine
'Many bitter tears are shed'

Review
'Many bitter tears are shed' (Books Magazine )

'No doubt any fan of the historical saga, when men were men and women always swooned, will love it' (reader in Telegraph & Argus, (A Promise Given) )

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

warming to the core of the lives of the black country folk
on reading meg hutchinson book bitter seed it puts you right at the heart of the black country people who were born, bred and died to make the black country proud of its self, a fictional book that has a lot of fact only really reconised by the people of the black country, bitter seed kept me turning the pages constantly and at the end reducing a black country wench to tears read bitter seed and know how the people of the black country really felt and survied

enthralling - right to the end
A very good account of life during the war with descriptions of events.

The little twists through out the book keep the ending a surprise right up to the last minute.