Name: Ring of Clay By Margaret Kaine
SKU: 9780340828205
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Ring of Clay Summary

Ring of Clay by Margaret Kaine

An unforgettable story of love, loss and a secret waiting to be told RING OF CLAY is a compelling saga from a talented new novelist. Despite an early life marked by tragedy and hardship, Beth Sherwin dreams of staying on at school and even going to university - a heady ambition for a Potteries girl in 1956. Then a brutal encounter leaves her pregnant at seventeen. Unwilling to break her widowed mother's heart, Beth bears her secret alone and gives up her baby daughter for adoption. It seems her desperate gamble has succeeded. She finishes school, takes on a challenging job and meets Michael, charming eldest son of the wealthy Rushton family. She has to fight both class prejudice and the jealousy of her old enemy Ursula to win him - but when he asks her to marry him, Beth faces a dilemma. Does she dare tell Michael her guilty secret and risk losing him? And even if he stands by her, can she bear the certainty that the brutal stranger who fathered her child will be at her wedding?

Ring of Clay Reviews

The story runs at breakneck speed, it s a brilliant, thought-provoking read, one can hardly stop for breath . . . an eye-catching plot brilliantly portrayed. North Wales Chronicle on RING OF CLAY

A perfect novel . . . Kaine is great at conveying the tough times following the Second World War. Beth is an inspiring heroine, and readers will love her rise from rags to riches. - Irish Tatler on Ring of Clay

A tense and compelling epic. - U Magazine on Ring of Clay

A rags-to-riches story with some dramatic twists and turns, the book has everything from romance to tragedy A real tear-jerking rollercoaster ride A great book to curl up to after a hard day at work. Dumfries and Galloway Standard on Ring of Clay

Romance stands out from the crowd There is much more than just a girl-meets-boy-wedding-bells-happy-ending to Kaine s book Sub-plots are skilfully woven into the tale, but it is her studies of the relationships between her characters which single the novel out. Leicester Mercury on Ring of Clay

A wondefully fast moving read with an eye-catching plot brilliantly portrayed - BANGOR CHRONICLE on RING OF CLAY

Kaine has a gift for storytelling. - Woman s Way on Ring of Clay

Kaine is a fantastic storyteller and has a knack for connecting with the reader and making her characters seem true t

About Margaret Kaine

Born and educated in Stoke-on-Trent, Margaret Kaine now lives in Leicester. She began writing ten years ago and her short stories have been published in women's magazines in Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, South Africa and Norway. RING OF CLAY is her first novel. It won the 2002 Romantic Novelists' Association/Reader's Digest Of Love and Life New Writer's Award.

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Sku

GOR013925191

ISBN 13

9780340828205

ISBN 10

034082820X

Title

Ring of Clay by Margaret Kaine

Author

Margaret Kaine

Condition

Used - Like New

Binding type

Hardback

Publisher

Hodder & Stoughton

Year published

20030707

Number of pages

320

Prizes

Winner of Sagittarius Prize 2003 Winner of Romantic Novelists' Association / Reader's Digest New Writers' Award 2002

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Note

The book has been read, but looks new. The book cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket is included if applicable. No missing or damaged pages, no tears, possible very minimal creasing, no underlining or highlighting of text, and no writing in the margins

Ring of Clay Margaret Kaine

Ring of Clay by Margaret Kaine

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