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Bara två år efter att hans fru dött gifter Hector Stewart om sig med Moira Conelly i ett försök att rädda familjegården på engelska landsbygden. Moira ska nämligen snart få ta del av ett rejält arv. När sedan Moira blir lurad på arvspengarna faller familjen isär, men efter att en oväntad tragedi inträffar får de en chans att stärka banden mellan sig igen. Catherine Cookson föddes 1906 i South Shields och dog 1998 i Newcastle-upon-Tyne. "Kate Hannigan", hennes första roman, utkom 1949.

Agnes Conway är den 22-åriga föreståndaren för faderns tobaksbutiker. Fadern verkar bekymmerslös och oansvarig, men det finns mörka hemligheter i hans förflutna som till slut kommer till ytan. Agnes är en stark ung kvinna som lyckas behålla sitt grepp om tillvaron genom många tragiska händelser under tiden före, under och efter första världskriget.

Två små pojkar förlorar plötsligt sina pappor. Den ena pojkens far har mördats vid stenbrottet, den andra har försvunnit spårlöst och beskylls för att ha stulit gruvbolagets lönekassa. Livet i gruvbygderna i Northumberland präglas av hård kamp för tillvaron, missväxt, slagsmål, rivalitet men även stormande kärlek och vardagslycka. Catherine Cookson föddes 1906 i South Shields och dog 1998 i Newcastle-upon-Tyne. "Kate Hannigan", hennes första roman, utkom 1949.

It seemed the clouds that had darkened so much of Maisie’s early life had finally cleared away. Freed at last from a disastrous marriage, she had also become a bestselling author with her very first book – all about Hamilton, the remarkable horse her imagination conjured for solace through...

The Victorian Sabbath was not without problems for some of those committed to its strict observance. Nancy Ann Hazel, the young and high-spirited daughter of a country parson, suffered from her father’s lengthy Sunday sermons. The autumn sunshine beckoned her into the fields and along the bank...

To outsiders, Dr Paul Higgins' life appeared to be happy and contented. Everyone had a good word for him and his home life appeared to be ideal. At 36, Bett Higgins could still pass for a much younger woman, not just in looks but in the way she loved the company of people half her age. A grand couple, some might say. But once the surgery was closed and the curtains drawn, the façade that Paul and Bett Higgins presented to the world concealed a welter of hate and ill-conceived bitterness that had grown worse with the passing years.

Jonathan Ratcliffe is the successful manager of Affleck and Tate's engineering works. He has succeeded to this position over the head of Arthur Brett whose ancestors founded the firm, and the inevitable tension between the two men is increased when Arthur Brett finds himself attracted to Vanessa, Jonathan's daughter. She is only 16 but draws envious eyes. Angus Cotton, son of the Ratcliffe's cook, is a rough diamond and an engineer at Affleck and Tate. He has ambitious plans for his future, plans that never included Vanessa, until he is blamed by Jonathan for giving Vanessa a child.

Laat je onderdompelen in de klassieke strijd tussen landheer en hofmeester in het romantische Victoriaanse tijdperk in Engeland. Wanneer de rijke Samuel Fairbrother een prachtig landhuis koopt, moet hij ook het personeel behouden. Het hoofd van het huishouden, butler Roger Maitland, regelt alles tot in perfectie en laat zich niet zomaar afschepen door zijn nieuwe baas. Het is de dochter des huize, de oudste dochter van Samuel, die op geheel eigen wijze het tij weet te keren en iemands hart weet te veroveren. Betekent dit een vredige toekomst in huize Fairbrother?

Abel left home, taking with him his young son, Dick, and together they tramped their way to the North where his roots lay. It was a hard and sometimes traumatic journey, and at its end there seemed to open up whole new vistas of life and experience. But the spectre of the past remained, and the burden of its secrets continued to play a major part in shaping both Abel and his son's destiny.

John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife, a son, friends, but he was isolated from all the people and events around him by the tragedy of his past. Then he met Cissie, and for the first time his loneliness eased a little. Cissie was everything that his wife Ann was not. She was warm, compassionate and generous. And she was quick to sense the needs of a desolate unhappy man. But Cissie was also a young widow: poor, and with a young son to support. And John Emmerson was one of the town's leading solicitors - a man of importance whose every move was watched by the local dignitaries. . .

In the brooding north country hills, a man and a woman fought for the passion they felt for each other that the world branded a disgrace. . .Agnes Thorman - the proud but forlorn mistress of a once-grand estate, whose society forbade her the man who was her equal in all but name. . .Robert Bradley - a gifted craftsman, as visionary and challenging as the dawning new age. He had yet to seize his dream, which could destroy the woman he loved. . .And Milicent Thorman - the strange, wise girl-child fated to play a part in the lovers' unfolding destiny. . .

It was a wartime white wedding but it was not a love match. Annie Cooper married George McCabe for one reason only: she was expecting his child. But Annie was a girl of spirit and determined to make the marriage work. Annie applied herself to that task as she matured into a woman of character and resource. The family prospered even as it grew. She bore George four children, but it was the first who always held her heart in the hollow of his hand. From early childhood, Rance was a problem.

Prudence Dudley was a woman who appeared to have everything: an undeniably attractive woman who had already achieved considerable success as a novelist. Yet she remained at odds with life after her sad rejected childhood and a more recent deeply wounding emotional crisis. Nearing a breakdown, Prudence seeks support from her staunch and supportive Auntie Maggie, and flees to her rented cottage in the Lake District. They encounter the owner of the cottage, aggressive and overbearing David Bernard Michael McVeigh. In time, Pru comes to learn that his iron façade is not the whole man.

When the Gallachers received an invitation from the Duke of Moorshire to attend an evening at Lea Hall, Maggie was overwhelmed. She did not see the invitation as the rock on which she was to perish; nor was she prepared for the reaction of her family. But had Maggie, or any of the Gallachers, foreseen how it would turn out, how irrevocably it would change the lives of the family she loved so dearly, she would have torn that invitation into tiny pieces and thrown them all on the fire.

In Battenbun, Northumberland, there live four Puddleton men - Grandpop, Old Popo, Pop and Peter. Three of them have two things in common: a squint in one eye and in the other, a glint for the opposite sex. Peter, his mother's only joy, has no squint and no eye for women either - until one day a customer calls at his garage on the edge of the village. The village hadn't seen anything like her before, and wasn't certain it wanted to, and from the moment of her arrival, things began to happen. An eel is found in a pond where none had been known to visit before.

Harry Blenheim wasn't what you might call a good-looking fellow, but his face was full of character, with the kindest eyes God ever made. That's what his wife Esther had said, back in the days when they'd loved and laughed together. Now, it was five years since they had even kissed goodnight. Still, everyone in Fellburn respected Harry, even if there was no love lost between him and his hard-headed father-in-law. No one was more surprised than Harry that he should let himself become involved in a fling with an office girl.

His full name is Joseph Rooney Smith and he works for the corporation of one of the Tyneside towns as an ‘M.P.’. This has nothing to do with the Houses of Parliament, but is short for ‘Muck Pusher’: Rooney is a dustman. A shy man, Rooney has one aim in life – a comfortable home, but with a difference – he did not want a wife. As a result, Rooney spends his time dodging women; his canniness becomes the envy of his mates and the despair of predatory widows and single women.

Beatrice, de oudste dochter van de welgestelde Simon Steel, neemt zonder enige moeite het huishouden in huize Dennenlust over wanneer haar moeder overlijdt. Haar drie zussen zien haar strenge beleid met lede ogen aan en merken hoe het landgoed een obsessie voor Beatrice wordt. Bij het overlijden van de vader des huizes, is ze tot in de puntjes voorbereid om het huis en de grond eromheen over te nemen.

Nancy Ann heeft spijt. Als klein meisje was ze altijd al avontuurlijk aangelegd en dat terwijl ze zeer streng werd opgevoed door haar vader, de dominee van het dorp. Nadat ze met Dennis trouwde, merkte Nancy Ann al gauw de nare trekjes van haar man die meer en meer zichtbaar werden. Heeft ze de juiste keuze gemaakt door met Dennis te trouwen, of had ze toch voor de zorgzame lord Graham Mercer moeten gaan?

Prudence Dudley besluit het roer volledig om te gooien door haar drukke bestaan achter zich te laten en tijd door te brengen in het rustieke Lake District. Verrassend genoeg brengt juist hun overeenkomstige, afschuwelijke voorgeschiedenis hen nader bij elkaar. Hoe komt Prudence los van de verschrikkelijke herinneringen uit haar jeugd? Zullen zij het verleden weten in te halen?