Book description
Emmeline Powell had been born a country girl, in a small, whitewashed
cottage on Honey's Farm. When her father died, Emmeline, bereft and
lonely, married Joe Harries, a man much older than herself and one of
the fishermen of Oystermouth. The wives of the oyster catchers were
sturdy, stoic women, used to helping their men with the catch, and they
didn't like the frail outsider who had married into their community.
Nina Parks especially didn't like her - Nina was a widow who thought Joe
Harries should have been hers. Emmeline - Eline - grew more isolated,
more unhappy, trapped into an ill-matched marriage without friends to
help her. And then she met Will Davies. Will was to open new worlds to
her, worlds of personal achievement, the unfolding of a talent she never
knew she possessed, and the realisation that she knew how to love. As
tragedy and passionate feuding began to erupt in the oyster village, so
Eline clung to her integrity, her ability to work, and her hopes for the
future. Iris Gower was born in Swansea, where she still lives. The
mother of four grown-up children, she has written over twenty
bestselling novels. She received an Honorary Fellowship from the
University of Wales Swansea in 1999 and has been awarded an MA in
Creative Writing from the University of Cardiff.
