One Blue Moon (Pontypridd S.)

by Catrin Collier (Author)

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  Paperback
  1994

  $3.25

  A sequel to Hearts of Gold, set in a small Welsh community in the 1930s. When Diana and Maud return home, life seems tougher than ever. Maud is ill and there seems little chance of her survival - until hard-nosed Ronnie Ronconi, whose family owns the local cafe, realizes he is in love with her.

• Used

  Paperback
  2007

  $4.56

• Used

  Hardcover
  1993

  $3.25

• New

  Paperback
  2006

  $4.97

  Maud Powell and her cousin Diana had always dreamed of becoming nurses, but their hopes are shattered when Maud contracts TB - a death sentence in 1930s' Pontypridd. With pits closing, Haydn abandoning a steady job for a stage career, and their cousin Diana's secret burden, the Powell family are facing hard times. Meanwhile Ronnie Ronconi, eldest of the large, cafe-owning family, has two simple beliefs: his sisters must marry good Italian Catholics, and determination and hard work will get him anything he wants. But his dreams are shattered when he realises that what he wants is Welsh, chapel-going, consumptive Maud. For once, high-handed, ruthless Ronnie seems to be facing the impossible...