Clive proved to be reliable and loving. She loved Cissie truly and never pressed her with his presence and desires, never came whining to her, as Matthew did many times. Clive’s return home adds more complications. He is the child’s father, but Lord Fischel and his vicious daughter lay claim to the little boy. More intrigue and violent confrontations follow, and as in any great novel, there are plenty of unexpected twists to the rest of the story, including romantic ones. He runs after her on the moor and asks her if she loves Matthew the carpenter. She’s like, “Nah, he’s never around when I need him.” Her ninety-six siblings are like, “Wait, what?” So there's Cissie and her brood, Matthew the Wheelwright, and then Lord Fischel and his mansion and awful (adult) children, Clive and Isabelle. Isabelle is about as evil as a villain can be. Catherine Cookson has recently become one of my favorite authors. Cookson creates powerfully touching novels of love and overcoming the odds, two things that I greatly enjoy reading about. The Dwelling place is such a novel. It tells the story of a courageous young girl who takes on the challenge of raising her many brothers and sisters. It's touching and very interesting plot wise. I recommend it to those who LOVE historical fiction and perhaps those who like not having the difficulty of something like Jane Austen. What I'm getting at is that it's pretty straightforward.

What I enjoyed was that this was a sort of dystopian survival novel . . . except it takes place early in the 19th century. Cissie, 15, is the eldest of eleven children (there were 14, but three died previously) when her own parents and an infant die of fever. This is in the County of Durham in Northeast England, and there are few options for the absolutely destitute. But Cissie will hear nothing of her siblings going "into the Poor Law" -- obviously horrific. 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. in Northern England"]. 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. Period drama serial The Dwelling Place was another entry in the series of Catherine Cookson adaptations made by Tyne Tees throughout the 1990’s.Episodes 56 mins ago Ireland’s Most Evil Killers: Charlotte And Linda Mulhall (Sky Crime Thursday 2 November 2023) They have friends, but charity cannot always spare them the harsh reality of their struggle and the bitterness of those who wish them harm. But can love, when it arrives, teach Cissie not to fear the world beyond the dwelling place?

In 1830’s Northumberland 16 year old Cissie Brodie is forced to bring up her five younger siblings alone following the death of their parents. Cissie Brodie grew up on a tenant farm in 1840s England. When cholera took her parents, the fifteen-year-old girl was left caring for nine younger siblings. To keep them out of the workhouse, Cissie moves them to a cave in the fells. She makes the heartbreaking decision to send the older boys out to work in the mines. Some of her sisters worked in the homes of the wealthy. When the life of the offspring of a rich landowner intersects with Cissie's, her world undergoes another great change. Cissie is resilient and overcomes great hardships.The Dwelling Place is one of the best books I've ever read with strong characters and an unforgettable plot. This movie is NOTHING like the book. Nothing. The Cissie of the book was beautiful, strong, dignified and weighed down by the burden of having to feed and shelter nine children; the Cissie in the movie looked and acted like a street urchin who never displayed grief at losing her parents and who obviously never combed her hair. I cannot understand why the most of the readers like Matthew's character. He appeared to me egoistic and possessive. By the end of the book I already disliked him completely. He treated both Rose and Cissie terribly. I think Cissie did not really love him, but it was her teenage first romantic touch, and the situation they were in. I think she was depending on him and saw him as their saviour and only friend. My impression is that she was not quite happy during her marriage. Otherwise she would not feel "released" after Matthew's death and would mourn and remember him with love. I did not notice any of them. What is more, I do not recall having read that she loved Matthew since Clive's first return in her live. This book has an absolutely terrible, super damaging philosophy of love and sex, and I threw it in the garbage. It might be the only book I've ever thrown in the garbage, and I have no regrets. The ending (and the relationships between Cissie and everyone else, but especially the conclusion) is brutal. 10/10 do not recommend. Kids growing up/acting up? - Yes Kids: - struggling to earn a living to survive Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book Episodes 56 mins ago Abbey Clancy: Celebrity Homes: Sheree Murphy and Caprice ( Thursday 2 November 2023)

Turns out not everyone likes this arrangement. You know who really hates the arrangement? Isabelle! …no, I don’t know why either! When fifteen-year-old Cissie Brodie loses her parents to cholera, she is forced out of the family cottage and left to raise her nine siblings alone. Although desperately poor, the strong-willed Cissie determines to build a new home for the Brodies. It is only a rough stone shelter, but to Cissie and her family it is enough to keep them from the workhouse. This story revolves around Cissy Brodie, a 15 year old girl who is left to care for her numerous siblings when her parents die. If that wasn't enough, they are evicted from their home. Cissy is determined to keep the family together and so, sets out to create a "dwelling place" from a cave on the fells. The other family we meet are the Fischels. They’re gentry! Also, they’re a can of nuts. Daddy Fischel’s an asshole, Clive Fischel’s a fop, and Isabelle Fischel has been driven insane by the fashions of the 1830s, one of history’s ugliest eras. He went on to appear in a huge range of TV dramas, including the BAFTA-nominated Band of Gold and Peak Practice*. He took a lead alongside Paul Nicholls in the police drama City Central. He's also guest-starred in popular shows such as Waking the Dead, Dalziel and Pascoe, and Murphy's Law.

Ok, it seems there are many contradictions regarding the plot of this story and personally, I feel, this is as a result of many who had watched the mini-series believing the novel is accurate to the tv/movie adaptation, which it is not. So, The Dwelling Place is about the fiercely beautiful and clever Cissie Brodie, who marries her rapist.