Saturday's Child - Softcover

Hamilton, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0552147710 ISBN 13: 9780552147712

Publisher: Corgi Books, 2002

Synopsis

There are three of them - of varying ages and conditions of life - all Saturday's children. Nellie - cruelly called Smelly Nelly by her neighbours - condemned to live in a silent world and whose past conceals a brutal secret. Magsy O'Gara, whose love for her dead husband dominates her life. Beth O'Gara, her small daughter, born with an intelligence beyond her years, who might just have the chance to better herself. Three women, all seeking something that only time will reveal.

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About the Author

Ruth Hamilton is the bestselling author of A Whisper to the Living, With Love from Ma Maguire, Nest of Sorrows, Billy London's Girls, Spinning Jenny, The September Starlings, A Crooked Mile, Paradise Lane, The Bells of Scotland Road, The Dream Sellers, The Corner House, Miss Honoria West and Mulligan's Yard. She has become one of the most popular authors who recreate the lives and places of the north-west of England. Ruth Hamilton was born in Bolton and has spent most of her life in Lancashire. She now lives in Liverpool.

From the Back Cover

"Saturday's child works hard for a living..."

And so they did - three females, one born in the 19th century, two in the 20th, each a worker, each driven by that unseen hand which shapes destiny, every one of them born on a Saturday.

It was 1950. Magsy O'Gara, her husband killed in the war, plodded through her daily routine as a hospital cleaner, dedicating all her spare time to Beth, her genius daughter. Pursued by men who admired her great beauty, she was determined to remain a widow. Nothing was to divert her from her gruelling schedule. Her goal was simple: Beth would become a doctor.

Beth, however, wanted the normal life - a brother, a sister, a stepfather who might make her wonderful mother happy. This was, after all, the 20th century; gone were the days when a woman stayed at home to mind her family. So Beth was delighted when a personable man began to court Magsy.

Across the road at number 1, Nellie Hulme, trapped in a world of silence, watched the other two Saturday girls. Deaf since infancy, Nellie had a secret so huge that it amused her. What would the folk round here have thought had they known her true position in life? And why, why did she "hear" in her dreams?

In another of her wonderfully complex tales, Ruth Hamilton draws us into a web of passion, mystery and deceit.

Edition details

• Publisher: Corgi Books
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0552147710
• ISBN 13: 9780552147712
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384