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The Woman From Browhead: The first volume in an enthralling Lake District saga that continues with ANNIE´S GIRL.
Audrey Howard
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Description for The Woman From Browhead: The first volume in an enthralling Lake District saga that continues with ANNIE´S GIRL.
Paperback. A saga set in the hills above Bassenthwaite Lake in the Lake District, telling the story of a girl who struggles to survive on a lonely hill farm in the late 1840s and early 1850s. The story will continue in the next generation in Annie's Girl. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FT; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 113 x 39. Weight in Grams: 316. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
The heroine is Annie Abbott, daughter and only child of a poverty-stricken hill farmer and his downtrodden wife, who runs away with a theatrical group at the age of 15. Annie returns to Browhead, the beautiful lonely hill farm above Bassenthwaite Lake, with only her pride and her baby daughter to sustain her. Her parents are dead, her old friends dare not be seen with an unmarried mother and the other farmers will lnot help a woman who presumes to buy sheep and raise crops without a husband at her side.
Except for one man. Reed ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Number of Pages
608
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340607046
SKU
KAK0009546
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Audrey Howard
Audrey Howard was born in Liverpool in 1929. Before she began to write she had a variety of jobs, among them hairdresser, model, shop assistant, cleaner and civil servant. In 1981, while living in Australia, she wrote the first of her bestselling novels. Here fourth novel, The Juniper Bush, won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award ... Read more
Reviews for The Woman From Browhead: The first volume in an enthralling Lake District saga that continues with ANNIE´S GIRL.
This saga is, like all of Audrey Howard's books, compelling and memorable...a joy to read
The Historical Novels review on A PLACE CALLED HOP
Among the dross that constitutes the Liverpool saga market for women, Howard's enjoyable 19th-century historical romance of crossed love shines out.
Daily Mail
Poignant and well plotted, this is the book to ... Read more
The Historical Novels review on A PLACE CALLED HOP
Among the dross that constitutes the Liverpool saga market for women, Howard's enjoyable 19th-century historical romance of crossed love shines out.
Daily Mail
Poignant and well plotted, this is the book to ... Read more