The Bells Of Scotland Road by Ruth Hamilton
NOT SINCE TWOPENCE TO CROSS THE MERSEY HAS THERE BEEN A NOVEL OF SUCH STRENGTH, POWER AND EMOTION DEALING WITH A GREAT CITY To the Liverpool of the 1930s came Bridget O'Brien, a young widow with two children, about to be forced into marriage with a man she had never met. Her destination was the infamous Scotland Road, with its noise, its colour, its poverty and humour, where the people lived lives of crime and courage backed by rich tradition and a folk lore they had themselves evolved. For Bridget, straight from Ireland, fleeing from a brutal and bigoted father, Scotland Road was, at first, noisome and terrifying. Her sense of isolation was made worse when she met her bridegroom, Sam Bell, a middle-aged pawnbroker whose twin sons were older than she was. Grimly thankful that at last she and her daughters had a roof over their heads, she settled to make the best of it that she could. It was the rough and vibrant Costigan family who first made her welcome. Diddy, a huge warm-hearted Liverpudlian and Billy, her docker husband did their best to ease the young widow into her new life. Anthony, one of her so-called stepsons too held out the strong hand of friendship, but Liam, the fa
Ruth Hamilton is the bestselling author of A Whisper to the Living, With Love From Ma Maguire, Nest of Sorrows, Billy London's Girls, Spinning Jenny, The September Starlings, A Crooked Mile, Paradise Lane, The Bells of Scotland Road, The Dream Sellers, The Corner House, Miss Honoria West, Mulligan's Yard, Saturday's Child, Matthew and Son and Chandler's Green. She has become one of the north-west of England's most popular writers. Ruth Hamilton was born in Bolton, which is the setting for many of her novels, and has spent most of her life in Lancashire. She now lives in Liverpool.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780552143851 |
| ISBN 10 | 0552143855 |
| Title | The Bells Of Scotland Road |
| Author | Ruth Hamilton |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 1997-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 576 |
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