Girl of Her Time [Paperback]

Margaret Kaine (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 6, 2004

Vibrant Maureen Matthews has always been a 'deep one' and dreams of a life beyond the Potteries. Then, just like a scene from one of her beloved movies, she meets handsome, charming Trevor Mountford. He seems to be everything Maureen ever hoped for and when he asks her to marry him she has no hesitation in saying yes. When married life doesn't turn out to be the ideal Maureen thought it was she starts to question both her life and her love. Then she meets Greg Barlow. He's completely different from what she thought she wanted -- but everything she ever needed. Can she put aside her past and finally find true happiness?

Editorial Reviews

Review

'A riveting story, absorbingly told.' Ireland on Sunday on Rosemary 'Rosemary is a story of survival, strength and of a young girl's quest for love. It's an absorbing read, so well crafted that your heart will beat just a little faster as you're drawn into the riveting battle between heartbreak and hope.' Daily Record 20040717 'Kaine is a fantastic storyteller and has a knack for connecting with the reader and making her characters seem true to life.' Woman's Way on Rosemary 20040717 'A perfect novel ... Kaine is great at conveying the tough times following the Second World War. Beth is an inspiring heroine, and readers will love her rise from rags to riches.' Irish Tatler on Ring of Clay 20040717 'Stands out from the crowd!There is much more than just a girl-meets-boy-wedding-bells-happy-ending to Kaine's book!Sub-plots are skilfully woven into the tale, but it is her studies of the relationships between her characters which single the novel out.' Leicester Mercury on Ring of Clay 20040717 'A beautiful romantic novel of tragedy, loneliness and new-found feelings!an absorbing tale that captured me from the first words.' Harborough Mail on Rosemary 20040722 'Kaine has a gift for storytelling.' Woman's Way on Ring of Clay 20040722

About the Author

Born and educated in Stoke-on-Trent, Margaret Kaine now lives in Leicester. She began writing ten years ago and her short stories have been published in women's magazines in Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, South Africa and Norway. She won the 2002 Romantic Novelists' Association/Reader's Digest Of Love and Life New Writer's Award for her first novel, Ring of Clay.

Product Details

• Paperback: 560 pages
• Publisher: Coronet (December 6, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0340828277
• ISBN-13: 978-0340828274
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.6 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,982,306 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Born and educated in the Potteries in Staffordshire, Margaret Kaine now lives in Leicester. Her short stories have been published widely in women's magazines in the UK, and also in Australia, Norway, South Africa and Ireland. Ring of Clay, her debut novel, won both the RNA's New Writer's Award in 2002 and the Society of Authors' Sagittarius Prize in 2003. She has now published six romantic sagas about life in the Potteries between the 50's and 70's; her latest novel, Ribbon of Moonlight is also set partly in Paris. Translations include German and French and all details of her books can be found on her website - www.margaretkaine.com