The Dream Sellers - Hardcover

Hamilton, Ruth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0593041836 ISBN 13: 9780593041833

Publisher: Bantam Press, 1997

Synopsis

Wealthy mill owner, Edward Shawcross, had been a penniless young man until he married the daughter of the Fishwick family. The Fishwicks went to live abroad, leaving everything to their son-in-law. No-one knows why. But as a new generation begins to grow up, the past scandals begin to emerge.

About this title

From the Back Cover

The Shawcross family was a strange and unhappy one. Edward Shawcross absented himself as much as possible and kept a red-haired mistress in Tintern Avenue. Alice, his wife, sought solace in chocolate and continually carped at Connie, her beautiful daughter. And Connie and Gilbert, their children, formed an uneasy alliance in the face of their parents' antipathy.

Twenty years before, Edward Shawcross had been an impoverished millhand, born in a slum to feckless parents. Overnight his fortunes had changed. To everyone's surprise he had married the plain and awkward daughter of the wealthy Fishwick family. Almost at once the Fishwicks, owners of a lucrative mill and a grand house, went to live abroad leaving Edward in charge of all their business interests. No-one could understand why Edward had suddenly made this leap of fortune.

But as the new generation began to grow up, so the truth behind old scandals begin to emerge. Then, after many years, the Fishwicks returned and violence swiftly followed. Before Connie and Gilbert could throw off the legacies of the past and build their own lives, there were to be many shocking revelations.

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, Mulligan's Yard, Saturday's Child, Matthew and Son and Chandler's Green. She has become one of the north-west of England's most popular writers. Ruth Hamilton was born in Bolton, which is the setting for many of her novels, and has spent most of her life in Lancashire. She now lives in Liverpool.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0593041836
• ISBN 13: 9780593041833
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 416