- Hardcover: 302 pages
- Publisher: St Martins Pr (June 1982)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0312477082
- ISBN-13: 978-0312477080
- Product Dimensions: 21.1 x 16 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 476 g
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The author of Maggie Craig (p. 294) propels another poor early-20th-century Lancashire lass on to happiness, again through an unwise marriage, hard times, and a star-crossed love affair. Jenny Macartney, who lives in drear with constantly weeping mum Mollie and dangerously drunken step-father Harry, is at her wit's end. She's been let go from her job and has had to hold off Harry with a poker. So Jenny accepts the proposal of odd Mr. Waring, a pious, eerily genteel clerk, who turns out to be a sadistic maniac in bed. Fortunately, then, Mr. Waxing is promptly, accidentally, killed by Harry - and Waring's batty sister Agnes drives Jenny from the house. So Jenny sets out, starving and cold, to find work in another town - where she's taken on as a maid-of-all-work at Cedar House. And though mistress Mrs. Bleasdale, with her "cut glass accent," is horrid, two visitors cheer Jenny up mightily: there's handsome Paul Tunstall of High Trees, who is to marry Mrs. B.'s frail daughter Sarah (not knowing that Sarah has a few loose shingles), and there's Justice Ben Ibbotson, who soon becomes deeply involved in Jenny's affairs. Is there something about her family's history that has driven Ben to distraction - something having to do with Jenny's real father? Will Paul and Jenny ever get together? (The Paul/Sarah wedding goes through - disastrously.) What's the family secret? Well, once again Joseph lacks the Cookson bite, but her heroines are warmly appealing - and the coincidences and implausibilities are just part of the light romantic charm here. (Kirkus Reviews)
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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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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Poor shopgirl's adventures in Nineteenth-century Lancashire ., July 26 2008
By Zou Zou - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Leaf in the Wind (Hardcover)
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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