Product Description

Davie Armstrong watches as his master, Angus McBain, publicly thrashes young Molly Geary for refusing to name the man who had made her pregnant. And yet, only an hour later, Davie sees the two of them alone in the malthouse, and learns that the child is McBain's. In a whirl of disbelieving rage, he overhears them plotting to let him, Davie, take the blame and marry Molly. Meanwhile, the master's wife is also pregnant. And a few months later the birth of the McBain's son Amos unleashes violence and tragedy at the farm. Born with no legs and emotionally crippled, Amos will learn to wield power of frightening intensity over everyone around him.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9785 in Books
• Published on: 2008-07-14
• Original language: English
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 448 pages

From the Back Cover
Davie Armstrong watches as his master, Angus McBain, publicly thrashes young Molly Geary for refusing to name the man who made her pregnant. And yet, only an hour later, Davie sees the two of them alone in the malthouse, and learns that the child is McBain’s.

In a whirl of disbelieving rage he overhears them plotting to let him, Davie, take the blame and marry Molly.

But the master’s wife is also pregnant. And a few months later the birth of the McBains’ son Amos unleashes violence and tragedy at the farm. Born emotionally and physically crippled, Amos will learn to wield power of frightening intensity over everyone around him . . .

Set at the end of the nineteenth century, Feathers in the Fire is a deliciously dark tale and a beautifully imagined novel.

About the Author
Catherine Cookson was born in Tyne Dock, the illegitimate daughter of a poverty-stricken woman, Kate, whom she believed to be her older sister. She began work in service but eventually moved south to Hastings, where she met and married Tom Cookson, a local grammar-school master. Although she was originally acclaimed as a regional writer - her novel The Round Tower won the Winifred Holtby Award for the best regional novel of 1968 - her readership quickly spread throughout the world, and her many bestselling novels established her as one of the most popular of contemporary women novelists. After receiving an OBE in 1985, Catherine Cookson was created a Dame of the British Empire in 1993. She was appointed an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, in 1997. For many years she lived near Newcastle upon Tyne. She died shortly before her ninety-second birthday, in June 1998.

Customer Reviews

Dont expect to sleep until the last page.
This is one of Cooksons best books.A dark tale..but in true Cookson syle..it has the power to make the reader laugh with its unexpected twists and turns...of the fate of the lives of the people at the farm.
As to be expected from this author...a first class read.
You will be involved in the lives of her characters..you get to know them as well as your nieghbours..perhaps better.
Share thier sadness and triumphs..love and hate them..then as Ms Cooksons takes us along our opinions change ..real people in real situations
the true emotions of people are layed bare for the reader.
Set in a bleak landscape..the depth of her characthers..astound the reader..that so much ..love ..hate,,and raw emotion shine out in this book
One Cookson book is never enough for the reader
it is the start of a relationship with this Author that will stay with you a lifetime.

Feathers in the Fire Catherine Cookson
Great read - couldn't put it down!!
Read it before - but many years ago.
Also bargain price!!

i want more
Having very little time to read during the day i find that i end up reading in bed, this book had me losing sleep there was never a piont i felt was right to put it down, you want to read the next bit, so many twists and turns, you never know what to expect.
I found this to be a really good read so much so that i wished the author had wrote a follow up to the story.