The Sixpenny Winner - Softcover

Connor, Alexandra

Softcover

ISBN 10: 178036234X ISBN 13: 9781780362342

Publisher: Peach Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

Ada Gantry was born in the Portswood slums to a beloved father crippled at work and saw her embittered mother constantly humiliating him with her sharp tongue. Ada falls in love with Clem Hargreaves, a young man also from the slums whom her mother strongly disapproves of, and fate plays a cruel hand when a tragic accident occurs.

Ada’s strength and determination pulls her through and together they work hard to achieve their ambition of owning their own successful pub, The Sixpenny Winner.

However when two brothers join them to help with the heavy work, Ada soon realises that her family is being torn apart and discovers evil and revenge of a kind she has not encountered before where all their lives, including those of her two daughters, can never be the same again.

Dramatic, heartbreaking and heart-warming, betrayals and full of passion, The Sixpenny Winner is the best yet from Alexandra Connor.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

'It's the most notorious pub in Stockport'

Ada Hargreaves is a tough woman, which is just as well – she's needed to be. Born in the Portswood slums, she and her husband have worked hard to raise their own family in better conditions. When they take over the local pub, their ambitions seem realised – but not for long...

As World War Two looms, a stranger comes to the door. He's the estranged brother of the barman. Although Ada senses that the newcomer is no replacement for the reliable Doug, labour is hard to find, and, fatally, she doesn't heed her instincts. It's a dangerous mistake. For Ada, for her daughters, and for the family that comes to seek refuge with them. Only one thing's for sure: it will give Stockport a scandal to last for years.

'Dramatic, witty, heartbreaking and heartwarming, 'The Sixpenny Winner' is the best yet from Alexandra Connor.'

About the Author:

Alexandra Connor was born in Lancashire and educated in Yorkshire. She had a variety of careers including photographic model, cinema manager and personal assistant to a world famous heart surgeon. Yet, incredibly, it was only after being stalked and beaten up in London that she found her real forté. During her convalescence, Alexandra discovered an ability to paint. A further relapse resulted in her writing her first novel. Alexandra Connor's work has been featured in The Times, The Telegraph, Observer, New Woman, Woman's Journal, Woman and Home, Hello! The Express, The Daily Mail, and many foreign newspapers such as Le Figaro and La Sicilia. Alexandra is listed in Debrett's 'People of Today'; is an entrant in the Dictionary of International Biography; and inaugural version of The Cambridge Blue Book. She is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peach Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 178036234X
• ISBN 13: 9781780362342
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 614