The Good Provider

by JessicaStirling (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1989

  $4.80

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $9.30

  Kirsty, an 'orphan brat' escapes from the remote Ayrshire farm where she was a servant and runs away with her sweetheart, Craig Nelson. With little money and still strangers to each other, they travel to Glasgow and set up in a 'marriage' that is never made legal. Ambitious and impatient to get on, Craig falls in with a gang of sly and vicious thieves and soon sinks into a life of drink and crime. Meanwhile, Kirsty has met the handsome and charming David Lockhart, a medical missionary soon to return to China. But she is bound by loyalty to Craig, a less than ideal husband who can only bring her hardship and heartbreak ...

• Used

  Hardcover
  1988

  $4.88

  This is the first book in a trilogy, set in Glasgow in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Kirsty runs away from her foster home with childhood sweetheart Craig. They move into a one-room flat full of hope, which dies when Craig turns out to be a less-than-ideal husband and starts to work for a villain. Jessica Stirling is the author of The Stalker Trilogy and The Beckman Trilogy .