🎉   Please check out our new website over at books-etc.com.

Seller
Your price
£18.99
Out of Stock

A Shilling for a Wife

By (author) Emma Hornby
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Imprint: Bantam Press
Published: 3rd Nov 2016
Dimensions: w 144mm h 222mm d 39mm
Weight: 592g
ISBN-10: 0593077520
ISBN-13: 9780593077528
Barcode No: 9780593077528
Trade or Institutional customer? Contact us about large order quotes.
Synopsis
Sally Swann thought life couldn't get much worse. Then a single coin changed hands. A dismal cottage in the heart of Bolton, Lancashire, has been Sally's prison since Joseph Goden 'bought' her from the workhouse as his wife. A drunkard and bully, Joseph rules her with a rod of iron, using fists and threats to keep her in check. When Sally gives birth, however, she knows she must do anything to save her child from her husband's clutches. She manages to escape, and taking her baby, flees for the belching chimneys of Manchester, in search of her only relative. But with the threat of discovery by Joseph, who will stop at nothing to find her, Sally must fight with every ounce of strength she has to protect herself and her son, and finally be with the man who truly loves her. For a fresh start does not come without a price . . . A SHILLING FOR A WIFE is powerful, absorbing storytelling that is perfect for fans of saga by Dilly Court, Rosie Goodwin and Maggie Hope.

New & Used

Seller Information Condition Price
-New
Out of Stock

What Reviewers Are Saying

Submit your review
Newspapers & Magazines
"A woman's lot was shocking in the 1850s as this Cooksonlike saga brilliantly describes... Have some tissues handy!" * Peterborough Telegraph *