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Author Whitfield, Anne, 1971-

Title The house of women / Anne Whitfield.

Publication Info. London : Knox Robinson Publishing, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (379 pages)
Note Description based on print version record.
Summary As the Victorian Age draws to a close, lonely and brokenhearted, Grace Woodruff fights for her sisters' rights to happiness while sacrificing any chance for her own. The eldest of seven daughters, Grace is the core of strength around which the unhappy members of the Woodruff family revolve. As her disenchanted mother withdraws to her rooms, Grace must act as a buffer between her violent, ambitious father and the sisters who depend upon her. Rejected by her first love and facing a spinster?s future, she struggles to hold the broken family together through her father?s infidelity, one sister?s alcoholism, and another?s out-of-wedlock pregnancy by an unsuitable match. Caring for an illegitimate half-brother affords Grace an escape, though short-lived. Forced home by illness and burdened with dwindling finances, Grace faces fresh anguish ?and murder? when her first love returns to wreck havoc in her life. All is not lost, however. In the midst of tragedy, the fires of her heart are rekindled by another. Will the possibility of true love lead Grace to relinquish her responsibilities in the house of women and embrace her own right to happiness?
Note GMD: electronic resource.
Subject Yorkshire (England) -- Fiction.
FICTION / Romance / Historical / General
Genre/Form Historical fiction.
Love stories.
Other Form: Print version: Whitfield, Anne, 1971- House of women. London : Knox Robinson Publishing, 2011 9780956790187 (OCoLC)754904284
ISBN 9780956790194 electronic bk.
0956790194 electronic bk.
9780956790187
0956790186
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