Book description
The date is 1843; the occasion, the launch of the S. S. Great Britain.
Bristol is alive with pageantry, awaiting the arrival of Brunel, the
great engineer, and Prince Albert himself. The Stuckey men who helped
build the ship now face hardship and unemployment, further humiliated by
their womanfolk doing menial work for rich Clifton employers. Poor they
may be, but Carrie Stuckey and her friend Elsie have their dreams. Into
their lives comes John Travis, a man who represents everything Carrie
could wish for but who manages to create conflict between them all.
Rowena Summers
is a pseudonym of Jean Saunders (1932Ã Â-2011). She was born in London,
but lived in the West Country for almost all of her life. She was
married to Geoff Saunders, her childhood sweetheart, with whom she had
three children.
After the publication of her first novel, Jean began a career as a
magazine writer and published around 600 short stories. She started to
publish gothic romance novels under her married and maiden name in the
1970s. In the 1980s, she wrote historical romances under what would
become her two most popular pseudonyms, Rowena Summers and Sally James.
In 2004, she began to use the penname Rachel Moore.
In 1991 Saundersà  s novel, The Bannister Girls,
was shortlisted for the Romantic Novel of the Year award.
