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The Dwelling Place

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I'd also like to read "Feathers In The Fire" by the same author which also seems to be a different book. Catherine Cookson Presents" is a well - made series with good production values,fine performances and a pleasing repertory company of actors to ensure the high standard is maintained. Then when Elaine became pregnant, she saw it as a disaster, but in the long run, would it widen the rift between husband and wife, or would it help to bring about a reconciliation? I also believe this will appeal appeals to women rather than to men) There is nothing humorous or lighthearted about a tale of a poor working class family of nine siblings, orphaned and relying on the eldest sister to keep them all together.

You will not read a more exciting and absorbing work of historical fiction than this gem from Catherine Cookson. I’d say all this change of custody is really scarring, but I think this kid will have plenty of problems just from his wardrobe. It’s just as well he’s around, too, since kids are always coming back from the mine with head injuries and femurs sticking out and whatever.Simple enough stuff then,put like that,but "The dwelling-place" glitters with fine performances and conveys the atmosphere of early Industrial Revolution England,although oddly. Set at the turn of the century in Northumberland and London, this is the gripping story of fourteen-year-old Marie Anne Lawson, youngest daughter of a prosperous Northumbrian family - and of the mysterious 'branded' man, who was to influence both their lives to an extent that neither of them could have imagined. She seldom portrayed dignity, she smiled too much, and her witch-like tangle of hair had nothing in common with Cissie's shining braids. Jinnie Howlett, a fifteen-year-old inmate of a northern workhouse, is offered a position as a maidservant on an isolated farm, but soon realises she has merely exchanged one type of drudgery for another.

It's fascinating because it goes into great detail about their belongings, their meager meals, how they make do, a sort of Boxcar Children for adults. Harry Blenheim had always been known as the nice bloke, an inoffensive man whose existence was as dull as ditchwater.

When Cissie Brodie loses both of her parents to cholera she is left with nine younger siblings to look after and no income. So with the help of a kind young wheelwright, Cissie manages to set up house in a cave on the fells ["a hill or stretch of high moorland, esp. I'm not often a fan of the happy sappy ending but this one made me happy :) Lots of likable characters; even the characters we were supposed to hate were likable in a way. Even as a child Barbara was beautiful, but as her beauty grew, so did the affliction which shadowed it - she was becoming more and more deaf. When the life of the offspring of a rich landowner intersects with Cissie's, her world undergoes another great change.

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