Twilight Time

by EmmaBlair (Author)

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  2004

  $3.27

  The Devonshire village of Ford is full of excitement and curiosity at the arrival of their new doctor, the dashing young Scotsman Jamie Murray. Among the fluttering female hearts are sisters Maggs and Crista Fletcher. And though Maggs frequents the local pub, the Angel, in the hope of a chance meeting with the young doctor, it is Crista to whom Jamie has taken a shine.
  Not that Maggs is exactly drinking on her own. Her admirers include Dickie Trippett, her childhood sweetheart, now scarred for life in the First World War, and handsome, confident and rich Rupert Swain, son and heir to the local paper mill. For Maggs, there is no contest as to where her affections lie: Rupert wins hands down.
  Except that Rupert is a member of the most hated family in Ford: the Swains run the paper mill in the most ruthless and cruel fashion, paying the lowest rates in dangerous working conditions. And just as Maggs cannot reveal the object of her love, Rupert wouldn't dream of doing so either. As far as he's concerned, she is just another village girl to be loved and left.
  As Maggs and Crista's lives progress, they come to realise that those young, seemingly carefree days have, in fact, shaped their entire destinies . . .

• Used

  Paperback
  2004

  $3.27

  Sisters Crista and Maggs work in a Devon village paper mill. Life is hard - the Great War has recently ended, money is scarce and days are long. Even the Saturday night dances are same-ish. But they are happy enough, particularly when love comes along. Crista loses her job but is taken on as housekeeper for the new younger doctor, Jamie. A relationship develops. Maggs falls in love with Robert Swain, son of the mill owner, gets pregnant and is abandoned. But Dickie, badly injured during the war, has always loved her and she agrees to marry him. Forty-five years later, Maggs is still married to Dickie, running one of the village pubs. Crista is a widow with three grown-up children. Life has been good to her, but meeting Max could signal a new stage in her life. But can love win through in those greying years?