A good twist would've been her saying I'll give up this baby and give it a better life and start with a clean slate. Emerald Pritchard has lived a privileged life with her parents and her younger sister, Abigail, in the stately Astley House on the outskirts of Nuneaton. Rebellious Abigail is unwilling to lower herself to menial farm chores and instead runs away, finding work as ahostess in a Soho club where she soon attracts trouble. They are forced to throw themselves on the mercy of Emerald's uncle w ho begrudgingly allows them to live in a small cottage within the grounds of his farm. What a lovely story of a wealthy family losing all and how they each recovered in ways one could not believe.

Emerald Winter has lived a privileged life with her parents and her younger sister Abigail in the stately AstleyHouse. By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. This book definitely would've been five full stars as I loved Emmy's story, Abi's too up until the pregnancy thing ad I saw it coming from a mile off. If I got pregnant and didn't want it and was against abortion and I had some woman or many people as society tends too do to women who choose not to have kids telling me constantly you'll fall in love the moment you see the baby and I see the baby and see trauma or have no feelings for it I'm going to feel like a failure, I'm going to resent the kid if people keep telling me to give it a chance and push the kid on me. Emerald Pritchard has lived a privileged life with her parents and her younger sister Abigail in the stately Astley House on the outskirts of Nuneaton.

She is the first author in the world to be allowed to follow three of Catherine Cookson's trilogies with her own sequels. I will warn it has a few sexual abuse scenes so for anyone with kids or a history in it, they could be triggered but all in all, if you just skipped them like I did, it was a well written book. Warwickshire, 1875Emerald Winter has lived a privileged life with her parents and her younger sisterAbigail in the stately Astley House on the outskirts of Nuneaton.

M Godding Books Ltd is an internet book business running from Wiltshire and sending books all over the world every working day. It wasn’t one of my favourite books but it was a really good book for doing work to like I was filing papers and doing entries and I found it very entertaining. I still live in Nuneaton, where many of my books are set, with my husband, Trevor, and our beloved dogs. I'm either going to off myself for thinking I'm horrible for not having maternal instincts like "normal" women do or I'll take it out on the child who doesn't deserve that. Emerald or Emmy the oldest daughter goes to live and care for a sick wealthy and very eccentric aunt Imogen, Abigail or Abi the youngest is conned by her cousin Jasper to go work at a club in London and runs away.

Mother Dorcas is a selfish spendthrift who runs her family into debt (Corrine Dollanganger) her husband is ashamed of himself for losing it all and the family goes to live on Dorcas's brother's estate in a tiny cottage. I felt like the reader is forced to compare between the flighty younger sister and the able, responsible elder one.

Forced to throw themselves at the mercy of Emerald’s uncle who begrudgingly allows them on his farm and desperate to find work, Emerald must leave her family and travel to London to become the companion of a distant aunt she’s never met. They are forced to throw themselves at the mercy of Emerald's uncle who begrudgingly allows them on his farm. There is absolutely no connection to the previous book except for the fact that both central characters have a name of a precious stone. A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. They are forced to throw themselves on the mercy of Emerald’s uncle, who begrudgingly allows them a small cottage within the grounds of his farm.Britain's best-loved saga author is back with another heartbreaking tale in her bestselling precious stones series. Not everyone is meant to be a mother and I'm sick and tired of reading stories like Abi's that make it seem like if you don't fall in love with your baby there's something not right with you. A well off family loses everything, the father of the house is gone, there's a mysterious wealthy relative that no one heard of that one of the kids is sent to live with and swap out half uncle for cousin.