With Love from MA Maguire - Hardcover

Hamilton, Ruth

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9780593019283: With Love from MA Maguire

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593019288 ISBN 13: 9780593019283

Publisher: Bantam Press, 1990

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The story is set in and around the cotton mills of Lancashire. It follows two families through 40 years of mill life. From Philly Maguire's first meeting with Richard Swainbank, a pattern of overpowering love, conflict and secrecy was born.

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A wonderful saga set in the cotton mills of Lancashire.

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From the very first meeting of Philly Maguire and Richard Swainbank, a pattern of overpowering love, conflict, hatred, and secrecy was born. For although Philly and Richard were on opposite sides of the mill floor, they recognised - both of them - that they were equally matched in strength of character and the capacity for overwhelming sexual passion.

Thus began the forty years of conflict between the two families - the Swainbanks, cushioned by wealth but tearing each other to pieces with the violence of their emotions - and the Maguires, proud, betrayed, and led by the vibrant and magnificent Philly.

A major saga of the Lancashire cotton mills - of the strong, violent, real people who both owned them, and worked in them - and of the dangerous things that love can do to families throughout the generations.

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