The Bobbin Girls

The Bobbin Girls

by Freda Lightfoot (Author)

Synopsis

Alena Townsen wants nothing more than to spend the rest of her life with her childhood friend, Rob, the only son of James Hollinthwaite, a wealthy landowner. Hollinthwaite, however, has other ideas and when he forces the two to part, they run away together and join a wandering group of coppicers, naively thinking they can stay hidden for ever. But they are discovered and Rob is sent away to school while Alena has to start work in the local bobbin mill. Life there is hard and her love for Rob severely tested with the arrival of the coppicer's son who becomes the mill's new foreman. Torn between the two men, Alena follows her heart and chooses her true love, Rob, but they have to fight despotism and bigotry in their quest for happiness together.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Edition: 2
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Published: 05 Nov 1998

ISBN 10: 0340674385
ISBN 13: 9780340674383
Book Overview: A heartwarming Lakeland saga in the bestselling tradition of Audrey Howard.

Media Reviews
One of her best Lakeland stories [...] it is a tale of past secrets and a search for happiness of thwarted love and conflictiong loyalties, of ruthless power and a village community faced with far-reaching disruption. * Keswick Reminder *
Real people and real dramas are her mainstay * Westmoreland Gazette *
An entertaining saga * Manchester Evening News *
Author Bio
Freda Lightfoot was born and brought up in the mill towns of Lancashire. She has been a teacher, bookseller and smallholder but began her writing career by publishing over forty short stories and articles and five historical romances. She has a flat in the Lake District and a house in a small mountain village in Spain.