Book description
Rose Sugden is a Yorkshire girl through and through. In pre-First World
War Bradford, Rose's maternal grandfather, Caleb Rimmington, is one of
Bradford's wealthiest mill owners and her father is a highly talented
tapestry designer. Laurence Sugden's artistic talent is not put to use
at Rimmington's Mill, however, for Caleb, disappointed in his daughter's
marriage to a mere working-man, has disowned her and refuses all contact
with her three children. To Rose, and her brother Noel and sister Nina,
their grandfather Caleb is a myth they long to meet; even more so, they
long to meet their Rimmington cousins, cousins they can only read about
in the gossip columns of their local paper. When Caleb dies, this dream
becomes reality. Though the gulf between the Sugdens and the Rimmingtons
is vast, with the Sugdens living in a modest terraced house in the shade
of Rimmington's Mill, and William, Harry and Lottie, the cousins, living
in a grandiose mansion on the outskirts of the city, it is a gulf that
mutual curiosity overcomes. Intense, passionate relationships follow.
There are broken marriages and broken lives, and throughout it all Rose
is the warp and weft that keeps the family intact. Sustained by her
burning ambition to follow in her father's footsteps and to be a Head
Tapestry Designer, and to be so at Rimmington's Mill, and by her
unquenchable and seemingly hopeless love for Harry, will Rose at last
find the happiness that has so long eluded her?
