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Stephen, the eldest, remained at thirty the man-boy he would always be, gentle and loving yet utterly dependent on others, especially his two siblings: the staunch and self-reliant Joe, no less supportive for having been adopted, and young Donald, on whom Winifred doted to the point of obsession. Now Donald was to be married, to the only daughter of another affluent and Catholic Fellburn family; a liason as happy in prospect as it was undeniably suitable. But could the mother face up to a final cutting of the umbilical cord and to letting her ewe lamb go? And was he entering marriage with the unbesmirched purity of body and spirit that mattered so much to her? This might be the second half of the twentieth century, but amidst the strange workings of Winifrid's mind much older conceptions of morality and the teachings of the Church still held sway.
There was something potentially explosive just below the surface of life at Wearcill House, but when that explosion came it was in a totally unforseeable and devastating form, and even before the wedding festivities had ended. Its reverberations would plunge the Coulsons into an excoriating sequence of physical and emotional crises out of which would come both good and evil, as well as the true significance of the year of the virgins.
This is one of Catherine Cookson's most moving and fascinating stories of family conflict, rich in drama and many-faceted characterisation, evocatively set in a landscape where her great company of readers throughout the world know her to be masterfully at home. It again confirms her unique standing as the best-loved of contemporary novelists.
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