The first story in Margaret Pemberton's powerful new Yorkshire trilogy. Disappointed by his daughter's marriage to a mere working-man, mill-owner Caleb Rimmington has disowned her and refused contact with her three children. Rose, Noel and Nina long to meet their grandfather and their Rimmington cousins whom they read about in the gossip columns of the local paper. When Caleb dies this dream becomes reality. Intense, passionate relationships follow. There are broken marriages and broken lives. Throughout it all, Rose is the warp and weft that keeps the family intact. Rose Sugden is a Yorkshire girl through and through.
Margaret A. Hudson was born on 10 April 1943 in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK, of German extraction. She was daughter of Kathleen (Ramsden), an artist, and George Arthur Hudson, an architect. Married with Londoner Mike Pemberton, they have five grown children, today she lives with her husband and four small dogs in Whitstable, Kent. Apart from writing, her passions are tango, travel, English history and the English countryside.
Published since 1975, she is a bestselling romance writer as Margaret Pemberton, and under the pseudonyms Carris Carlisle; Maggie Hudson and Rebecca Dean. Having travelled extensively, her novels are set in different parts of the world. She was the fifteenth elected Chairman of the Romantic Novelists' Association (1989-1991), she has also served on the Crime Writers' Association Committee.