They lived worlds apart. Jenny was the girl from the cat-meat shop, born into squalor and defeat. Paul Tunstall was a soldier and a gentleman, arrogant and charming, with his silver-light eyes and boyish smile. And yet from the moment they met there was a spark between them - and their separate lives of pain and loneliness seemed to beckon to each other.
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Marie Joseph was born in Lancashire and was educated at Blackburn High School for Girls. Before her marriage she was in the Civil Service. She now lives in Middlesex with her husband, a retired chartered Engineer, and they have two married daughters and eight grandchildren. Marie Joseph began her writing career as a short-story writer and she now uses her Northern background to enrich her bestselling novels. Down-to-earth characters bring a vivid authenticity to her stories, which were written with both humour and poignancy. Her novel: A Better World Than This won the 1987 Romantic Novelist's Association Major Award.
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Poor shopgirl's adventures in Nineteenth-century Lancashire .,
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A well written, historical Cinderella story.
A young woman battles against the evils of poverty, ignorance and extremely limited opportunity. Young Jennie works in a cat's meat shop. She lives with her sluttish mother and drunken, abusive stepfather in a dingy terraced house. When Jenny's employer replaces her with cheaper labor, her stepfather's violent abuse leaves her with no safe alternative but marriage. The groom is a widowed clerk that she met at Chapel. The marriage is no escape from fear and hardship. Unhappily, Jenny's husband is robbed and murdered. Jenny's spiteful sister-in-law has inherited all, and refuses to house Jenny. This bad turn becomes a good turn, when Jenny is hired by the nouveau riche, class-conscious Bleasdale family. Newly engaged, tempetuous Sarah Bleasdale needs a maid. Sarah's betrothed is Paul Tunstall, a wealthy gentleman and soldier turned landowner. Eventually, Paul finds more to admire and love in steadfast Jenny, than in the vain, childish Sarah. The story progresses through a marriage, a miscarriage, a tragic injury, sad departures and ultimately a joyous reunion. We discover who murdered Jenny's husband, the identity of Jenny's biological father and the skewed nature of morality in this society. Recommended.
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