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Pit Bank Wench Meg Hutchinson

Pit Bank Wench By Meg Hutchinson

Pit Bank Wench by Meg Hutchinson


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Summary

Emma is only a pit bank wench, but she wins the love of Paul Felton, younger brother of the colliery owner. Carver Felton has no intention of seeing his brother throw away his future on such a humble girl and savagely rapes her, leaving her pregnant.

Pit Bank Wench Summary

Pit Bank Wench by Meg Hutchinson

Emma Price is only a pit bank wench, but her corn-coloured hair and blue eyes win the love of Paul Felton, younger brother of the colliery owner. Carver Felton has no intention of seeing his brother throw away his future on such a humble girl and savagely rapes Emma, leaving her isolated and pregnant with his bastard child.

It looks as though she is destined for the workhouse, but there are kindly folk in Wednesbury: Emma is taken in by butcher Samuel Hollington and his wife and gives birth to her son, Paul, under their care.

But Carver Felton has not forgotten the girl he wronged. Once he has ruthlessly achieved his business ambitions, he turns his attentions to finding an heir to the Felton fortune - and he determines to track down Emma and her child.

Pit Bank Wench Reviews

There's a tear in every chapter - Steve Craggs, Northern Echo

A super tale that lingers long in the memory - Bolton Evening News

Many bitter tears are shed - Books Magazine

A compelling historical saga of triumph over injustice. [...] Just right for lovers of Catherine Cookson. - Reading Chronicle and Bracknell News

Meg fits into a tradition before television when families sat around a fire and told stories. Not epic stories but the tales of their families and friends, an oral history of a place and its people. Her place and people are Wednesbury in the West Midlands. - Guernsey Evening Post

This old-fashioned drama has some wonderful villains and villainesses and at the end the most unlikely hero - Beverley Guardian, (Driffield)

About Meg Hutchinson

Meg Hutchinson left school at fifteen and didn't return to education until she was thirty-three, when she entered Teacher Training College and studied for her degree in the evenings. Ever since she was a child, she has loved telling stories and writing 'compositions'. She lived for sixty years in Wednesbury, where her parents and grandparents spent all their lives, but now has a quiet little cottage in Shropshire where she can indulge her passion for storytelling.

Additional information

GOR003017968
9780340696897
0340696893
Pit Bank Wench by Meg Hutchinson
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Hodder & Stoughton
20000106
361
N/A
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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