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The Mallow Years
This is the story of the love between a daughter of a mill-owner and a weaver. Their love develops and has to struggle for fulfilment through times of terrible distress, violence, and passion.
576 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
About the author
Audrey Howard
63 books52 followersAudrey Howard was born on 1929 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK, and grew up in St Annes on Sea, Lancashire, where she lives in her childhood home.
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 published since 1984. In 1988, her novel The Juniper Bush won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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 published since 1984. In 1988, her novel The Juniper Bush won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.
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July 3, 2020
Really disappointed in this book. I bored beyond tears with the wordy explanation of the heather and the cotton mills and living conditions adnauseum. I have to say that the characters were side pieces to the scenery. Didn’t enjoy the book and stopped reading it halfway through.
August 3, 2013
Borrowed from the local library and review taken from my blog (Post #135) back in June 2011.
As you would expect well written, if a bit on the long side (can I stress it was enjoyable though). A 4 **** Star read.
Kit Chapman, daughter of mill owner, inherits her father's mills by proving that for a girl she was just as tough and good at making money as her is.
In the other Joss Greenwood poor, hard-working and dedicated workers' rights activist.
Surely it would be impossible for these two to get together let alone work out their differences and find love?
As you would expect well written, if a bit on the long side (can I stress it was enjoyable though). A 4 **** Star read.
Kit Chapman, daughter of mill owner, inherits her father's mills by proving that for a girl she was just as tough and good at making money as her is.
In the other Joss Greenwood poor, hard-working and dedicated workers' rights activist.
Surely it would be impossible for these two to get together let alone work out their differences and find love?
March 10, 2011
Far more than 'just another historical saga': although I knew plenty about the Industrial Revolution, I hadn't known much about the specific effect it had had on any one group of workers, so this book filled in some gaps in my knowledge in a highly enjoyable way.
May 12, 2013
I like the detail of the factory and life of the worker but ithink the ending is "raw".. its just anticlimax
April 3, 2017
Well, this was a typical saga. Rich person meets poor person on the other side of the issue that they face... love, confusion, some back and forth ensue, backed up by tragic events. I'm sure you know how these things end. I did enjoy the detailed information about the cotton industry as it becomes industrialised.
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