An Apple From Eden/This Side Of Heaven

by EmmaBlair (Author)

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  2003

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  AN APPLE FROM EDEN - The Seatons, affluent members of the Protestant gentry, own The Haven, a lush opulent estate in the Scottish countryside. The Flynns, proud Catholics to the core, spend their working days in the factories and laundry houses of industrial Glasgow. Divided by class, wealth and religion, the two families could not live more different lives. However, as the Great War fades from memory the Seatons and The Flynns' lives are about to become tragically entangled. THIS SIDE OF HEAVEN - When she was sixteen, Shelia Beattie knew exactly what her future would be. She would marry her sweetheart Eric, a fisherman like her father, and they would raise their family and dream their simple dreams in the village in which they'd been born. But she was sixteen - and about to discover that in this world there is northing certain but change..no-one and nothing to be trusted but the voice of your own heart...

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  2009

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  Bridie gets a job as a maid on Sir Ian of Seaton's estate and, much against her better judgement and will, falls in love with Sir Ian's brother's step-son, also called Ian. Ian optimistically feels that his father will understand and let them marry but Bridie expects what she gets - dismissal, with Ian threatened with the loss of his inheritance. Ian then gets involved with a burglary on the estate and is killed and Bridie, on hearing this, deciding she can't bear to live with Ian dead, goes out into the snow, lies by his grave and freezes to death...The various sub-plots which flesh out this moving story make it a great Scottish women's read.

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  Hardcover
  1998

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  Paperback
  2009

  $22.39

  Bridie gets a job as a maid on Sir Ian of Seaton's estate and, much against her better judgement and will, falls in love with Sir Ian's brother's step-son, also called Ian. Ian optimistically feels that his father will understand and let them marry but Bridie expects what she gets - dismissal, with Ian threatened with the loss of his inheritance. Ian then gets involved with a burglary on the estate and is killed and Bridie, on hearing this, deciding she can't bear to live with Ian dead, goes out into the snow, lies by his grave and freezes to death...The various sub-plots which flesh out this moving story make it a great Scottish women's read.