Product Description

1833: the industrial age is sweeping through England and the Stephensons are planning the greatest engineering scheme ever undertaken- a railway line from Liverpool to London. At Morland Place, Nicholas had hoped that his brother Benedict, had been banished forever, but railway fever has brought Benedict back to Yorkshire as an engineer on the Leeds & Selby line. It is a lonely life and he fears he will never be wealthy enough to marry his new love, Miss Fleetham. Nicholas fears that Benedict is not only a threat to his inheritance but to Morland Place itself, as plans to bring the railway to York will desecrate the estate. The conflict between the brothers mirrors the nation's battle between the old and new, but the Morland feud seems certain to end in tragedy and no-one the victor.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #95918 in Books
• Published on: 1996-06-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 577 pages

About the Author
Cynthia Harrod Eagles won the Young Writers' Award with her first novel, THE WAITING GAME and won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award with EMILY. She has written over 50 books including 29 volumes of the Morland Dynasty, which she will be taking up to present day.

Customer Reviews

Arguably the worst Morland book
I love almost all the books in this series but this one would have to be my least favourite. It concentrated mainly on Nicholas and Benedict when I wanted to know what was happening with all the rest of the family too. It was rather disappointing but the next book in the series, The Hidden Shore was everything I wanted it to be and since then the author has not disappointed.

Glowing in the Dark
The "Morland Dynasty" series is one of the best, and best-selling, family sagas ever written. Harrod-Eagles has thus far given us 500 years of the Morland family. THE ABYSS is by far the darkest book in the series, a tale of madness, deceit and murder. Yet, even in the darkest hour of the family (and with only a very few members of the family in evidence in this volume), Harrod-Eagles draws the reader inexorably down the path and through the pages in her usual style.