Bobbin Girls by Freda Lightfoot

Bobbin Girls by Freda Lightfoot

Alena Townsen wants nothing more than to spend the rest of her life with her childhood friend, Rob, the only son of James Hollinthwaite, a wealthy landowner. Hollinthwaite, however, has other ideas and when he forces the two to part, they run away together and join a wandering group of coppicers, naively thinking they can stay hidden for ever. But they are discovered and Rob is sent away to school while Alena has to start work in the local bobbin mill. Life there is hard and her love for Rob severely tested with the arrival of the coppicer's son who becomes the mill's new foreman. Torn between the two men, Alena follows her heart and chooses her true love, Rob, but they have to fight despotism and bigotry in their quest for happiness together.

One of her best Lakeland stories [..] it is a tale of past secrets and a search for happiness of thwarted love and conflictiong loyalties, of ruthless power and a village community faced with far-reaching disruption. * Keswick Reminder *
Real people and real dramas are her mainstay * Westmoreland Gazette *
An entertaining saga * Manchester Evening News *

Freda Lightfoot was born and brought up in the mill towns of Lancashire. She has been a teacher, bookseller and smallholder but began her writing career by publishing over forty short stories and articles and five historical romances. She has a flat in the Lake District and a house in a small mountain village in Spain.

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ISBN 13	9780340674383
ISBN 10	0340674385
Title	Bobbin Girls
Author	Freda Lightfoot
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Hodder & Stoughton
Year published	1998-11-05
Number of pages	352
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