Book description
Bridget Mulligan loves her husband. He is caring, loyal and dependable
- everything a woman could ask for. But she can't quite forget Harry -
the one that got away - and when a snow storm drives her into his arms,
the inevitable happens. Nine months later a child is born. Overcome with
remorse, Bridget is determined that her husband should know the truth,
but her confession can lead only to heartbreak. Although he allows his
wife and her child to continue living in his home, Tom Mulligan makes it
clear that their marriage is over. Lonely and afraid, Bridget finds
comfort in the friendship of Fanny, a feisty young mother who knows what
it is to be alone. But Bridget's life can never be complete until she
has the love of the only man she ever really wanted... The story of
Josephine Cox is as extraordinary as anything in her novels. Born in a
cotton-mill house in Blackburn, she was one of ten children. Her
parents, she says, brought out the worst in each other, and life was
full of tragedy and hardship - but not without love and laughter. At the
age of sixteen, Josephine met and married 'a caring and wonderful man',
and had two sons. When the boys started school, she decided to go to
college and eventually gained a place at Cambridge University, though
was unable to take this up as it would have meant living away from home.
However, she did go into teaching, while at the same time helping to
renovate the derelict council house that was their home, coping with the
problems caused by her mother's unhappy home life - and writing her
first full-length novel. Not surprisingly, she then won the 'Superwoman
of Great Britain' Award, for which her family had secretly entered her,
and this coincided with the acceptance of her novel for publication.
Josephine gave up teaching in order to write full time. She says, 'I
love writing, both recreating scenes and characters from my past,
together with new storylines which mingle naturally with the old. I
could never imagine a single day without writing, and it's been that way
since as far back as I can remember.'
