Catherine Cookson
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1880, four years after she had inherited her father's businesses, 23 year old Bridget Dene Mordaunt was running them with a firm and confident hand. When her feckless cousin Victoria becomes infatuated with Lionel Filmore, a pattern of some good and some great evil begins. A pattern that will inexorably link Bridget with the old but impoverished Filmore family and will shape the lives of generations to come.
26) House of men
Author
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
239 pages (large print) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Following the breakup of her engagement, Kate Mitchell applies for a job as a part-time secretary at TorFret, the lonely house above the village on Neete Fell. There she works for Maurice Rossiter, head of a strange household composed only of men."--Page 4 of cover.
28) The obsession
Author
Pub. Date
1997.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An Englishwoman's battle to hang on to her family's bankrupt estate. She is Beatrice, one of four daughters of a gambling landowner who died in debt. By hook or by crook, Beatrice intends to hang on to her patrimony, her schemes including marriage and busting other people's marriage. By the author of The Year of the Virgins.
35) The whip
Author
Pub. Date
[1983]
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After the death of her father, Emma Molinero moves in with her grandmother and struggles to find a place for herself in a rugged English village.
36) The invitation
Author
Pub. Date
1989.
Physical Desc
528 unnumbered pages (large print).
Language
English
Author
Series
Mallen trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
1973.
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The first of a trilogy that will follow the lives of the Mallens through 3 generations.
39) Tilly
Author
Series
Tilly Trotter trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
1980.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Part of trilogy with Tilly wed and Tilly alone. Tilly lives in a cottage near the Sopwith estate, and she comes to the attention of the Lord of the Manor.