Product Description

When Thea Richardson and her best friend Ellie set out for the 1905 Newcastle Blondes and Brunettes beauty competition, Thea dreads to think what will happen if her authoritarian father ever finds out. But she never imagined that three days later she'd be ousted from the family home in Jesmond and sent to live with her mother's unmarried sister, Marjorie, in disgrace.

Yet as the days go by, what was intended as punishment brings to Thea the contentment she has never known in her own home. In her Aunt Marjorie she finds the companionship she never had with her mother, and if it wasn't for the fact that her aunt's handsome artist friend, Robert Hedley, doesn't seem to know she's alive, everything would be perfect. But a dark force is about to shatter her new-found security and take Thea to a dangerous world she never dreamt existed...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #179069 in Books
• Published on: 2002-04-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 480 pages

About the Author
Benita Brown was born and brought up in Newcastle by her English mother and Indian father. She went to drama school in London where she met her husband who, also from Newcastle, was working for the BBC. Not long after, she returned to her home town where she did some teaching and broadcasting and brought up four children. She is now a full-time writer.

Customer Reviews

One from the heart. An author to watch out for!
This is the story of Thea and Ellie, two young women of the respectable middle-class, who seem to have no major problems in their lives. But Ellie has to endure an overbearing and ambitious mother, and Thea suffers at the hands of her brutal father. When things come to a head with her father, Thea is sent to live with her aunt who is very involved in charity work. Here Thea witnesses first-hand the effects of gruelling poverty, but she also experiences tolerance and affection that she has never known before. This and her meeting with the artist Robert Hedley force her to re-assess her middle-class values. But Thea is still alone, and with no guidance she has a long road to travel before she finds her true self. What I really liked about All Our Tomorrows were the subtle changes that took place in the main character and how she faltered before regaining her footing.

All Our Tomorrows is set against the backdrop of a thriving turn-of-the-century Newcastle, characterised by both opportunities and desperation, and is a conventional saga with a gentle nod to the suspense genre. A thoroughly engrossing novel.

A great read. I would read more books by this author.
All Our Tomorrows drew me into the story and I hated to put it down. I cared about what happened to Thea Richardson and other characters in this Newcastle saga set in the early 1900s. All Our Tomorrows touches all the emotions, can make the reader laugh and cry.