Firebird

Informationen zum Autor Iris Gower was born in Swansea. A mother of four, she wrote over twenty bestselling novels. She received an Honorary Fellowship from the University of Wales Swansea in 1999 and was awarded an MA in Creative Writing from the University of Cardiff. She died in 2010. Klappentext Llinos Savage becomes presumed owner of the Tawe Pottery at the age of 14. As she attempts to keep the business afloat on a shoe-string! her world becomes complicated by the two men in her life who! between them! come to represent everything she holds dear. Zusammenfassung A sensational story of tragedy, riches, poverty and love from bestselling author Iris Gower. If you like Dilly Court and Rosie Goodwin, you will love this..! READERS ARE LOVING FIREBIRD! "Her characters come to life and feel as if they're [your] neighbours..." - 5 STARS "Can't put it down..." - 5 STARS "Excellent" - 5 STARS "Brilliant" - 5 STARS ********************************************************************* PASSIONS RUN HIGH AMIDST THE WELSH HILLS... When Llinos Savage's mother dies an untimely death, she finds herself in charge of the family pottery while still a young girl, attempting to keep the business afloat and dealing with the plotting of Philip Morton Edwards , the powerful and rich owner of the rival pottery in Swansea . Her father's return, badly wounded, from fighting Napoleon in France should be a joyous reunion, but instead his presence only adds to her difficulties. Two men make her world even more complicated: Eynon Morton Edwards , Philip's son - a gentle and sympathetic figure yet despised by his father; and Joe , an exotic outsider, born of an unlikely union between a cultured English businessman and a Native American squaw. How will Llinos cope with running the pottery, while suffering from the hatred of the Morton Edwards family and battling to suppress her own feelings for the man who seems her most unlikely suitor? Firebird is the first novel in Iris Gower's Firebird series. The saga continues in Dream Catcher . ...

Product details

• Authors: Iris Gower, Gower Iris
• Publisher: Corgi
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.1998
• EAN: 9780552144476
• ISBN: 978-0-552-14447-6
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 106 mm x 178 mm x 29 mm
• Series: Potter's; Potter's
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Saga, Historical romance, FICTION / Romance / Historical / General, FICTION / Women, Historical fiction, FICTION / Family Life / Marriage & Divorce, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Family life fiction, Narrative theme: Death, grief, loss, Romance: ‘western’, rural or ‘outback’, Romance: wholesome, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Napoleonic War fiction, Generational sagas, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, Nostalgia: general, Swansea and the Gower