Set in mid-1950's England, this story tells of the wealthy, socially upwardly-progressive Ratcliffe family. Their youngest daughter, seventeen year old Vanessa, feels alienated from her selfish parents, who are more interested in their eldest daughter's upcoming marriage into one of their town's old families. An old friend of the family, who is himself trapped in a loveless marriage, makes love to Vanessa one night, and she becomes pregnant, but won't reveal who the father is. Her parents are sure it is an employee of the Ratcliffe's, Angus Cotton, who hotly denies this and quits his job to go and start his own business. ... Condition: Good. Light wear to boards. Content is clean and bright. Good DJ with some edge wear and toning. How the main character, Renee/Irene, looked upon and loved Bella not as a grumpy, stumpy, ugly woman but as beautiful, loving & caring and a mother figure. Jedna noć će promeniti sve, u toj noći je Ajrin poljubila svog sina poslednji put i izašla na neko dešavanju da peva.

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Ajrin se pojavljuje na vratima advokatske agencije u dronjavom kaputu i haljini u kojima je viđena poslednji put pre 26 god. Naravno, čovek je u šoku i želi da zna šta joj se desilo i gde je bila, ali ona je u toliko lošem stanju da on zove sestru koja vodi starački dom ne bi li joj pružili negu i povratili moć govora. In particular re: my distaste for The Moth, the final straw (spoiler beware) was when a formerly loyal family retainer goes insane & sets fire to the house, then runs inside to his death after realizing his beloved Unbalanced Daughter of the House was still in the bedroom with her dog. Why did he do this? Because he couldn't face the Older Daughter of the House marrying a commoner who used to work for him in the stables & would therefore become higher than him on the servants' social ladder. U ovom romanu dobro pobjeđuje zlo; o Ajrin se skrbi dobrodušna Beti koja nasljeđuje kuću punu blaga, Ričard se suprotstavlja surovom ocu koji ga čitav život ugnjetava... Nada na kraju pobjeđuje beznađe. The Secret (2000) with Colin Buchanan, Hannah Yelland, Elizabeth Carling, Clare Higgins, and Stephen Moyer Forbidden/mismatched love? - Yes How mismatched? - poor loving rich Main Male Character Profession/status: - engineerEs simple, divertido, violento, clasista y mil cosas más, que todas equilibradas correctamente dan lugar a un libro que no podés dejar de leer, y tampoco podés dejar de pensar en el cuando no lo estás leyendo. And of course, once Angus has sex with someone from the upper class, things start going well for him, and even though that is not quite the cause and effect the movie was going for, that’s what it looks like to the viewer, so thanks for THAT. Advance: Philanthropy at Newcastle University" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 June 2011 . Retrieved 5 April 2023. Good book by this great author - it is such a shame she died and we can no longer look forward to any more books. There's some line in Anne of Green Gables where Anne describes the ocean as something that blows out the cobwebs of her soul. This is what Catherine Cookson books (at her best) do for me. I'm always sort of driven up and outward when reading my favourites by her, particularly The Moth and Fifteen Streets, and she expresses in me a wonderful sort of restlessness. Maybe its that she's able to pen words to abstract feelings. I dunno. I just know I'm grateful to have read her books. The critics are justified, but at the end of the day, sometimes you gotta accept the formula, roll with it, and see it for the web of feelings it is.

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Catherine Cookson Charitable Trust". Archived from the original on 18 August 2007 . Retrieved 15 January 2018.When she asked to see the firm’s senior partner, Alexander Armstrong, she was at first shown the door – but when Mr Armstrong learned the name of his visitor, all the office staff were amazed at his reaction. For Irene Baindor was a woman with a past – she had been a young woman of class and musical talent, wife to a wealthy and powerful man and mother to a beloved son. But behind closed doors her husband would act with such cruelty that Irene would be left without most of her voice and memory. Her emergence from obscurity was to signal the unravelling of a mystery that had baffled the lawyer for twenty-six years. Odavno me neki roman nije ovako "zakovao" za fotelju i natjerao da bjesomucno listam stranice da saznam šta će biti dalje...