Description
Product ID: | 9781035000319 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | A Woman of Courage |
Subtitle: | A heart-warming historical novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author |
Authors: | Author: Rita Bradshaw |
Page Count: | 496 |
Subjects: | Saga fiction (family / generational sagas), Sagas |
Description: | Select Guide Rating A Woman of Courage is a moving historical story set in Sunderland of a young girl finding the courage to fight for a better life in the face of danger. <p><b>Survival means fighting back. Set across Sunderland and New York in the late 19th century,</b> <b><i>A Woman of Courage</i> is a heartwarming saga by Rita Bradshaw, author of the bestselling <i>Believing in Tomorrow</i>.</b><br><br>It's 1890, and Josie Gray is an innocent and beautiful fifteen-year old when Adam McGuigan, the youngest son of a dangerous and influential crime family spots her singing in a Sunderland public house. Adam is handsome and charismatic, sweeping Josie off her feet with his beguiling lies and promises. He charms her into marrying him on her sixteenth birthday, but on her wedding night the fairy tale ends.<br><br>Josie finds herself trapped in a living nightmare and there's no one to help her. Events spiral out of control, and when her life is put in danger she escapes with her baby son. Fleeing to a different country, Josie fights to make a good life for her child and then love beckons again.<br><br><b>But the McGuigan family's power is far reaching. When the day of reckoning comes, can Josie survive it?</b></p> |
Imprint Name: | Macmillan |
Publisher Name: | Pan Macmillan |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-09-14 |