A Day Will Come

by Audrey Howard (Author), Audrey Howard (Author)

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  Hardcover
  1992

  $3.45

  Daisy Brindle begins life as a 'field girl': t tramping through Lancashire working at the hardest and most degrading labour. Her life is dominated by the pitiless gangmaster who treats the women and children under his control like slaves. Then one day Miles Thornley rides into her life. Daisy dares to dream of a better life. Soon, she has the chance to give herself to Miles. It is not until later that she understands that Miles is spoilt and arrogant, a dangerous enemy. Driven from the Thornley mansion to the streets of Liverpool, Daisy is rescued by a man of honesty and character, the sea captain Sam Lassiter. Relentlessly, Daisy plots her revenge on Miles Thornley. Until Sam Lassiter makes her choose between him and her obsession.

• Used

  Paperback
  1992

  $4.44

  Daisy Brindle is a field girl, tramping the roads of Lancashire in a gang of women and children, hired out by a brutal monster for stone picking, harvesting, winter work down the pits. Miles Thornley, heir to a great estate, arrogant and spoilt, changes her life. He teaches Daisy to love, seduces her - and casually casts her aside. He teaches her to hate.Driven onto the streets of Liverpool, Daisy is rescued by a man of honesty and restless energy, sea captain Sam Lassiter.

  
  
  

  First as his mistress and then as his wife and business partner, Daisy comes to enjoy the better things in life. But her unrelenting drive for revenge on the dissolute Miles threatens the destruction of everything she has worked for and achieved. Begins finally to threaten her marriage to Sam Lassiter...