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No.1 bestselling writer, Josephine Cox, is 'hailed quite rightly as a gifted writer in the tradition of Catherine Cookson' (Manchester Evening News). Take This Woman is a powerful novel about learning to put your past behind you in the pursuit of happiness, and will appeal to fans of Rosie Goodwin and readers who loved The Fifteen Streets.
Blackburn, 1947. In the tiny front parlour fourteen-year-old Laura Blake watches her beloved father die. But not before he tells her she will make something of her life. Laura never forgets his words. Yet her path to success proves to be a rocky one. Forced to trundle a cart around the back streets, selling other folk's cast-offs to support her family, Laura learns enough to start work in her uncle's furniture shop. But then fate deals another cruel blow when Laura is brutally raped. Bearing the child of her attacker in secret, she vows to make the world pay for its injustice towards her.
As she grows older her protective shell hardens even as her beauty blossoms, and her new toughness helps her forge a successful career in the antiques business. But it is in affairs of the heart that Laura stumbles...
Blackburn, 1947. In the tiny front parlour fourteen-year-old Laura Blake watches her beloved father die. But not before he tells her she will make something of her life. Laura never forgets his words. Yet her path to success proves to be a rocky one. Forced to trundle a cart around the back streets, selling other folk's cast-offs to support her family, Laura learns enough to start work in her uncle's furniture shop. But then fate deals another cruel blow when Laura is brutally raped. Bearing the child of her attacker in secret, she vows to make the world pay for its injustice towards her.
As she grows older her protective shell hardens even as her beauty blossoms, and her new toughness helps her forge a successful career in the antiques business. But it is in affairs of the heart that Laura stumbles...
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Description du livre Hardcover. Etat : Very Good+. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. A bright first edition/first printing in Very Good+ condition in alike dust-jacket with light edgewear; In this powerful and stirring novel, Cox explores the pull of obsession, the power of connection, and the cost of letting love slip away.When the beautiful, enigmatic Josephine moves into the apartment next door to Sara, Sara can't help but be drawn to her. Josephine is a mystery, and Sara is determined to solve it. They start spending hours talking, getting to know each other. Sara soon realizes that Josephine has a painful past, but she's also a survivor.As the two women become closer, Sara begins to feel like she's known Josephine forever. But as she gets to know her better, Sara realizes that Josephine is hiding something. She's keeping secrets, and Sara is determined to find out what they are.Soon Sara is spending all her time with Josephine, and the two of them become inseparable. Sara starts to think that she knows everything about Josephine, and she's even started to think of her; 8vo; 505 pages; FSA. N° de réf. du vendeur 30349