Product Description

Emma Price is only a pit bank wench, but her corn-coloured hair and blue eyes win the love of Paul Felton, younger brother of the colliery owner. Carver Felton has no intention of seeing his brother throw away his future on such a humble girl and savagely rapes Emma, leaving her isolated and pregnant with his bastard child.

It looks as though she is destined for the workhouse, but there are kindly folk in Wednesbury: Emma is taken in by butcher Samuel Hollington and his wife and gives birth to her son, Paul, under their care.

But Carver Felton has not forgotten the girl he wronged. Once he has ruthlessly achieved his business ambitions, he turns his attentions to finding an heir to the Felton fortune - and he determines to track down Emma and her child.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #197940 in Books
• Published on: 2000-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 490 pages

Bolton Evening News
‘A super tale that lingers long in the memory'

Review
'There's a tear in every chapter' (Steve Craggs, Northern Echo )

‘A super tale that lingers long in the memory’ (Bolton Evening News )

‘Many bitter tears are shed’ (Books Magazine )

‘A compelling historical saga of triumph over injustice. [...] Just right for lovers of Catherine Cookson.’ (Reading Chronicle and Bracknell News )

‘Meg fits into a tradition before television when families sat around a fire and told stories. Not epic stories but the tales of their families and friends, an oral history of a place and its people. Her place and people are Wednesbury in the West Midlands.’ (Guernsey Evening Post )

This old-fashioned drama has some wonderful villains and villainesses and at the end the most unlikely hero' (Beverley Guardian (Driffield Post) )

'This tale of jealousy and the power of good over evil races to the final paragraph' (Coventry Evening Telegraph )

Beverley Guardian (Driffield Post)
This old-fashioned drama has some wonderful villains and villainesses and at the end the most unlikely hero'

Customer Reviews

Left me screaming for revenge for this unfortunate woman!!!
Boy! We are so lucky to be born now instead of back in Victorian times when someone with a little money could decide your fate and that of your entire family or even an entire village. I wish the covers didn't look so sappy because it really doesn't reflect the struggle to survive that these poor unfortunate people had to go through. The heroin in this novel gains your sympathy and you can't put it down because you want her to be happy and find a life worth living. I loved it!

Another brilliant book from a brilliant author.
Another brilliant book from Meg Hutchinson. This book was eagerly awaited... and well worth the wait. The story keeps you involved the whole way through, making you feel the emotions the characters are experiencing. Based around the "Cut" and canal system as are most of her books, apart from Bitter Seed which was a little different but still very good. I come from Oldbury just on the borders of "The Black Country", it's brilliant to read her books and be able to visualise the canals and the villages as they were. All in all a brilliant book from a brilliant author, and i'm already waiting for the next one......