Book description
At first handsome, freewheeling Clive Cavendish does not appear to be
an ideal catch for Julie. But when a whirlwind seduction leads to love
and marriage and Clive's ambitious schemes begin to pay off Julie is
more than happy to be the wife of an up-and-coming painter and the
mother of his children. Anna's suitor, Howard Buskin, is rich, moody and
reclusive. He prefers painting Dartmoor's brooding landscapes to
courting the beautiful young woman his mother has chosen to be his bride
and from the first their uneasy, loveless marriage totters on the brink
of crisis. Only when American art collector Teddy Norris enters their
lives with a proposal that Howard cannot ignore, and an easy-going charm
that sweeps Anna into a tempestous affair, do the sisters begin to
question their loyalty to their husbands and to each other. A loyalty
that will be tested to the limit on the first, and last, Atlantic
crossing of the White Star's new super-liner, the unsinkable Titanic - a
voyage not all of them will survive. Born in Glasgow, Jessica Stirling
is the author of many heartwarming novels, most of which have Scottish
backgrounds. She has enjoyed a highly successful career since THE
SPOILED EARTH was published in 1974.
