In the shadow of the Althorpe mills, the Myrtle Street residents endure cramped and often verminous conditions.Joe Duffy, a Bolton tradesman, strives to lift his family out of the 'garden' streets. But as more children are born, Joe's wife Tess sinks deeper into the obsession that will be her undoing. When Tess screams her belief that the area is cursed, few people heed her ravings. She is ignored, even as the Myrtle Street tragedies become more frequent and begin to feature in local gossip.It is left to Megan, the third Duffy child - the one who felt she was unworthy and unloved because she had been born a girl - to end the curse. When she becomes embroiled in a web of deceit, Megan needs all her strength, talents, and wit in order to survive. But it is her capacity to give love that ensures her family's stability, the future of the Althorpe cotton mills, and the safekeeping of the Hall i' the Vale.
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'Gritty, down-to-earth writing and strong female characters have become the trademarks of her writing' -- Bookworld
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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.
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A Crooked Mile tells the story of several families from Bolton, England, both rich and poor, beginning after World War I. It follows the life of Megan Duffy, a girl born to a large family without much money and focusses on her connections with family, friends, and the various townspeople as she grows older.
I didn't greatly enjoy this book and couldn't really relate to the characters or the scene it was set in. The author didn't give much background on the class structure and level of poverty at that time in the UK; this would have been helpful, but I saw a five star review on amazon.co.uk so maybe I'm simply not British enough for this book...although modern British chick lit is one of my favourite genres. The book really dragged in the middle for me and I feel this is where I lost touch with the characters and didn't really care what happened to them. The three stars is due to an enjoyable last fifty pages.
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This book was very well written and kept me wanting more. The reader is drawn into the lives of the Duffy family. Very enjoyable.
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