Annie Pepper - Couverture souple

Savage, Sandra

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0993133207 ISBN 13 : 9780993133206

Editeur : Sandra Savage, 2014

Synopsis

Set in the Jute Mills of old Dundee at the turn of the 20th Century, Annie Pepper and her sister Mary try to find some happiness, as they realise that it is the men in their lives who ultimately decide their fate. Having both fallen for the same man, who stole Annie's heart and her virginity before also bedding Mary, the story tracks the sisters journey from Northern Ireland to Dundee as they follow Billy Dawson across the water. But as the fates and love continues to find them and then desert them, the sisters realise that the bond of love they have for one another is the one constant in their lives and something no one or nothing can break. Follow Annie's story as she becomes a Dundee Weaver in the jute mills and discovers the friendship and support of the other women, who like her, have to 'work or want' and share the tears and laughter of her struggle to find love and happiness in the noise and grime of the Jute Mills of Dundee.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The course of family saga historical love stories is not a smooth one for Annie Pepper, a young woman facing the burdens of poverty and unrequited love in historical Ulster. When Billy Dawson turns up on her mother’s flax farm to help with the harvest, Annie is captivated by him, and believes the promises he makes to her when he says he will marry her. But her sister, Mary, has also fallen for him, and the jealousy between these two women in love threatens to shatter the family ties that are all that hold the farm together. When the worst happens and Annie’s mother runs out of money, family drama splits the sisters and drives Annie and her mother into the Poorhouse, where she must toil for long hours to earn her keep, even as her mother withers away into nothing. Kept hoping only by the women friendships she has formed with the other inmates of the Poorhouse, her spirit soars when she receives a letter from her sister asking Annie to come and live with her – but Mary is in Dundee, married to the man she loves, who she thought loved her. It turns out her life was not one of the great family saga historical love stories after all. But where else can she go? Hoping to escape her dead-end life in Ulster, Annie accepts her sister’s invitation and follows her to Dundee, where she discovers both sadness and joy, heartbreak and hope, and finds that despite the literature of historical fiction women can find happiness even in the most desolate of places. In this historical fiction women friendships are tested by family drama and bound by love, tracing the struggles of working class women in love in the late nineteenth century.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Sandra Savage
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0993133207
• ISBN 13: 9780993133206
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 140
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible