Love Against All Odds

Love Against All Odds

by RosieHarris (Author)

Synopsis

Was she always to be fated in love...? When Gaynor's God-fearing father drives her childhood sweetheart away, she's certain she will never love again. But a young German soon helps her to forget her sorrows. Until, with war looming, he must return home and Gaynor is left heartbroken once more. And when her parents discover she's pregnant and insist she cannot keep the child, Gaynor runs away to Cardiff. Penniless and alone in a strange city she is forced to give birth in the workhouse. But shortly afterwards she is taken in by a friendly Spanish family who care for her and little Sara. And she quickly falls for the charms of the eldest son. But just when she thought she'd found love and a chance of happiness at last, a telegraph shatters her dreams...

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 06 Dec 2007

ISBN 10: 0434016187
ISBN 13: 9780434016181
Book Overview: A gripping saga set in 1920s Cardiff from the author of A Mother's Love

Media Reviews
Fans of Cookson will love this human saga . . . heartwarming. --Peterborough Evening Telegraph
Rosie Harris has a real sense of the place and its people in this touching and memorable tale. --Lancashire Evening Post
Author Bio
Rosie Harris was born in Cardiff and grew up there and in the West Country. After her marriage she lived for some years on Merseyside before moving to Buckinghamshire where she still lives. She has three grown-up children, six children and one great-grandchild and writes full time.