Sugar and Spice

by Ruth Hamilton

An absorbing tale of the strength and heartbreak of family ties - Winter, 1940. Anna MacRae is only five years old when her mother dies in childbirth and she is left with twin baby sisters. Anna is a gifted child, with a warm personality to match, but not so her sisters – and as, through the years, their pranks turn to stealing, bullying and worse, Anna must learn to cope with them if she is ever to find happiness of her own.

Genres: Fiction

256 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2010

About the author

Ruth Hamilton was one of North West England's most popular writers. She was the bestselling author of twenty-five novels, including Spinning Jenny, The Bells of Scotland Road, Mulligan's Yard, Mersey View and That Liverpool Girl. She was born in Bolton, which is the setting for many of her novels, and spent most of her life in Lancashire.

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Reviews

[Gail Walraven · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book up until the very end. It was well written, and humourous at times. Chapters alternated between the protaganist as a child and as an adult until nearly the end, when for some strange reason chapters began to have both perspectives included in the same chapter. My only problem with the book is that there is way too much content jammed into the last few pages. It was almost as if the author was in a hurry to finish the book.

[Clarinda Matthew · Rating 1 out of 5]

for my book with sugar in tittle i hated this book

[Ann · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting nature versus nurture novel - also really enjoyed the dry humour.

[Erin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really liked it until the end where it seems the author was in a big hurry to finish writing. I always enjoy stories that bounce back and forth between two time periods.

[Smokerjoerabbit Tong · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not embarrassed to say I cried at the end of this book and also through it...good depiction of pure psychopathic behaviour in some of the characters