by Anna Jacobs (Author)
Rachel Smedling is not like the other women in her isolated Pennine village: she is taller, stronger and weaves cloth like a man. Without her, the household would fall apart, for her mother is ailing and her vicious drunkard father seems to hate her so much, he would happily offer money to any man who would wed her.
When her mother dies, Rachel is at the mercy of her increasingly violent father. Her only escape is by marrying a kindly man with whom she finds happiness, if not passion, and her life begins to seem complete. Rachel's growing prosperity infuriates her father and his cronies, however, and they will stop at nothing to see her destroyed.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 432
Edition: 6th Impression
Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
Published: 04 May 2000
ISBN 10: 0340716916
ISBN 13: 9780340716915
Book Overview: A saga set in the Pennines in the middle of the eighteenth century, by the author of OUR LIZZIE.