Greenhill Far Away Tapa blanda - 2000

Paperback. Good.

Paperback. Very Good.

London: Brockhampton Press. Good+. 2000. Reprint; First Printing. Paperback. Mass Market PB . Some reading and cover corner creases, ink cross to front cover, remains of sticker with associated surface tear to rear cover, ink name to title, some foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; First printing of Knight mass market edition, 1989. Nice tight copy. Cover artwork by Gordon Crabb. Heavy book and priced accordingly. ; 448 pages; As the 20th century starts life is bleak in the industrial shoemaking towns of Northamptonshire. Young Lucy Middleton, who works in a boot factory, has always had to look after herself, her younger siblings and most everything else. For her father regularly goes on drunken binges and her mother has become a byword for fecklessness on their street. No matter how hard Lucy tries, her family never really has a chance. Lucy's only chance it seems to break free is to marry well, but having lost the love of her life how can she marry someone she doesn't love...? .

London: Knight, 1999. Book. Very Good. Paperback. Lucy's only escape seems to be marriage to a well-off man whom she likes but does not love. All to quickly hurt, she is bewildered by the absence of tenderness and warmth in the life she has chose - and desperate to recapture the excitement with Matt........