Book description
Annie Byrne was born during one of the worst winters Lancashire ever
remembered. When the doctor finally got through the nine-foot drifts
of snow, mother and daughter were in a pretty bad way, but both the
new-born Annie and her exhausted mother - a spinner in the cotton mill
- were fighters, tough and determined not to let the world knock them down.
They needed to be tough, for when Annie's father was killed in the
war, Nancy married again. And Eddie Higson - once he'd courted and won
Nancy Byrne - turned into a nightmare of a man, terrorizing the young
girl with one secret evil after another.
She had two friends who helped her through these bad years. Martin
Cullen, rough, uneducated, loyal, who knew he wasn't good enough for
her, and David Pritchard, the doctor who had supported her through the
worst times and who had bad problems of his own.
Together they watched her grow into a beautiful young woman,
desperately fighting the legacy of her childhood.
Ruth Hamilton is the bestselling author of A Whisper to the Living,
With Love From Ma Maguire, Nest of Sorrows, Billy London's Girls,
Spinning Jenny, The September Starlings, A Crooked Mile, Paradise Lane,
The Bells of Scotland Road, The Dream Sellers, The Corner House, Miss
Honoria West, Mulligan's Yard, Saturday's Child, Matthew and Son and
Chandler's Green. She has become one of the north-west of England's most
popular writers. Ruth Hamilton was born in Bolton, which is the setting
for many of her novels, and has spent most of her life in Lancashire.
She now lives in Liverpool.
