The Penny Wedding

ISBN: 0340603895
Author: Jessica Stirling
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Shipwright Alex Burnside and his family have left Partick's tenements behind. Moving to Flannery Park, one of Glasgow's new garden suburbs, puts the Burnsides up in the worl. Buit their good fortune doesn't last long. When tragedy strikes, life for Alex and his four grown sons will never be the same again. And for seventeen-year-old Alison, struggling to earn a place at university, it seems that her chance at betterment has gone forever. Throughout the Depression years of teh early '30s the Burnside boyus do their best to make ends meet and help Alison fulfil her destiny. Henry, the eldest, is rawn into an affair with a woman older than himself, while Alex, now widowed, seeks salvation by courting rough-tongued Ruby McColl. But it is Alison#s growing love for teacher Jim Abbott which finally puts her career in jeopardy and brings her into conclict with her family and with herself. In a society where success can be almost as much of a disaster as failure, Alison finds that she must choose at last between love and lyalty, between marriage and self-fulfilmet.

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