Great Victorian sagas
Discover timeless Great Victorian sagas, from Catherine Cookson's Tilly Trotter to Audrey Howard's The Woman from Browhead—epic tales of love, drama, and 19th-century life.
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The Woman from Browhead
by Audrey Howard
The heroine is Annie Abbott, daughter and only child of a poverty-stricken hill farmer and his downtrodden wife, who runs away with a theatrical group at the age of 15. Annie returns to Browhead, the beautiful lonely hill farm above Bassenthwaite Lake, with only her pride and her baby daughter to sustain her. Her parents are dead, her old friends dare not be seen with an unmarried mother and the other farmers will lnot help a woman who presumes to buy sheep and raise crops without a husband at her side. Except for one man. Reed Macaulay, son of the district's most prosperous landowner, knows that Annie is the only woman he will ever love. Secretly, he helps her any way he can. Secretly, because Reed has promised to marry another woman . . . 'Her thousands of fans recognise the artistry of a true storyteller' Lancashire Life
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The Glass Virgin
by Catherine Cookson
Growing up amid the strict mores and stultifying traditions of Edwardian England's Redford Hall, Annabella Lagrange is forced to hide her father's terrible secret and turns to her beloved cousin, Stephen, until a terrible truth about her identity forces her to recreate her life. 25,000 first printing.
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Tilly Trotter
by Catherine Cookson
An epic trilogy set during the reign of Queen Victoria, which follows the fortunes of a young girl from a small village in Tyneside, to a new life in America as the wife of a wealthy man, only to return and encounter the enmity of her former neighbours and townspeople.
