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Pit Bank Wench

Pit Bank Wench

by Meg Hutchinson (Author)

  • Used

    Paperback 2000

    $3.36

  • Used

    Hardcover 2001

    $8.18
Synopsis

Emma Price is only a pit bank wench, but her corn-coloured hair and blue eyes win the love of Paul Felton, younger brother of the colliery owner. Carver Felton has no intention of seeing his brother throw away his future on such a humble girl and savagely rapes Emma, leaving her isolated and pregnant with his bastard child. It looks as though she is destined for the workhouse, but there are kindly folk in Wednesbury: Emma is taken in by butcher Samuel Hollington and his wife and gives birth to her son, Paul, under their care. But Carver Felton has not forgotten the girl he wronged. Once he has ruthlessly achieved his business ambitions, he turns his attentions to finding an heir to the Felton fortune - and he determines to track down Emma and her child.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 496
 Edition: First Thus
 Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Published: 01 Jun 2000
ISBN 10: 0340696907
ISBN 13: 9780340696903
Book Overview: Emma Price seems doomed to the workhouse after being cruelly raped by a colliery owner. But the kindly folk of Wednesbury take her in and her life is changed forever

Media Reviews
There's a tear in every chapter. * Northern Echo *
A super tale that lingers long in the memory. * Bolton Evening News *
A compelling historical saga of triumph over injustice ... Just right for lovers of Catherine Cookson. * Reading Chronicle and Bracknell News *
This tale of jealousy and the power of good over evil races to the final paragraph. * Coventry Evening Telegraph *
Meg fits into a tradition before television when families sat around a fire and told stories. Not epic stories but the tales of their families and friends, an oral history of a place and its people. Her place and people are Wednesbury in the West Midlands. * Guernsey Evening Post *
There's a tear in every chapter * Steve Craggs, Northern Echo *
A super tale that lingers long in the memory * Bolton Evening News *
Many bitter tears are shed * Books Magazine *
A compelling historical saga of triumph over injustice. [...] Just right for lovers of Catherine Cookson. * Reading Chronicle and Bracknell News *
Meg fits into a tradition before television when families sat around a fire and told stories. Not epic stories but the tales of their families and friends, an oral history of a place and its people. Her place and people are Wednesbury in the West Midlands. * Guernsey Evening Post *
This old-fashioned drama has some wonderful villains and villainesses and at the end the most unlikely hero' * Beverley Guardian (Driffield Post) *
This tale of jealousy and the power of good over evil races to the final paragraph * Coventry Evening Telegraph *
Author Bio
Meg Hutchinson left school at fifteen and didn't return to education until she was thirty-three, when she entered Teacher Training College and studied for her degree in the evenings. Ever since she was a child, she has loved telling stories and writing 'compositions'. She lived for sixty years in Wednesbury, where her parents and grandparents spent all their lives, but now has a quiet little cottage in Shropshire where she can indulge her passion for storytelling.