The Deverell Women Ssa - Couverture rigide

Hutchinson Meg

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1444735330 ISBN 13 : 9781444735338

Editeur : Hodder & Stoughton, 2003

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Maura Deverell is a young Irish peasant girl whose mother is dying of consumption. Their cruel landlord threatens to throw them out of their cottage unless Maura agrees to marry his young son, Liam Riordan. But before Maura can decide, she is brutally raped by Liam's brother Padraig, who gloats that once she is under their roof, Maura will be at his mercy - his sexual slave.

Weak though she is, Maura's mother does not let this vicious act go unavenged. She curses the Riordans and then, on her deathbed, makes Maura promise to leave Ireland for good. Maura ends up in Birmingham, after many narrow escapes from rape and death. Even when she makes staunch friends, and discovers a protector in the shape of Aiden Shanley, she longs to go home, stopped only by her promise to her mother. Eventually the wicked Riordans meet a well deserved sticky end and Maura is persuaded to return and marry Liam after all.

Biographie de l'auteur

Meg Hutchinson left school at fifteen and didn't return to education until she was thirty-three, when she entered Teacher Training College and studied for her degree in the evenings. Telling stories and writing compositions has been part of Meg's life since a child and she now indulges this passion in a little cottage in Shropshire.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Hodder & Stoughton
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1444735330
• ISBN 13: 9781444735338
• Reliure: Relié