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By Our Beginnings
(1978)(Kit's Hill)
(The first book in the Brief Chronicles series)A novel by Jean Stubbs
The first novel in a historical saga you wont want to miss! For fans of Nadine Dorries, Maeve Binchy, Freda Lightfoot and Dilly Court.
The first touching saga of the Howarths of Garth
As a genteel woman with an education but no dowry, Dorcas Wilde has resigned herself to a life as the companion of her spinster aunt.
However, when she receives a proposal from Ned Howarth a kind yeoman farmer she puts aside her prejudices and agrees to become his wife.
The couples family and friends all disapprove of the match. And as the mistress of Neds farm, Kits Hill, Dorcas feels isolated and unwelcome.
But as she learns more about the land and the household, she begins to find ways to put her shrewdness and education to good use
Can Dorcas find her place at Kits Hill? Will she and Ned find true happiness together?
Or will they come to regret their hasty marriage?
Kits Hill is the first book in The Brief Chronicles, a gripping family saga set in rural Lancashire during the Industrial Revolution.
A master storyteller Publishers Weekly
Skilfully constructed and very strong on period detail TLS
She writes so infernally well Daily Telegraph
Stylish, witty, poetic and true Spectator
A good feeling for place and period with its roots firmly in the earth Homes & Gardens
Genre: Historical Romance
The first touching saga of the Howarths of Garth
Lancashire, 1760
As a genteel woman with an education but no dowry, Dorcas Wilde has resigned herself to a life as the companion of her spinster aunt.
However, when she receives a proposal from Ned Howarth a kind yeoman farmer she puts aside her prejudices and agrees to become his wife.
The couples family and friends all disapprove of the match. And as the mistress of Neds farm, Kits Hill, Dorcas feels isolated and unwelcome.
But as she learns more about the land and the household, she begins to find ways to put her shrewdness and education to good use
Can Dorcas find her place at Kits Hill? Will she and Ned find true happiness together?
Or will they come to regret their hasty marriage?
Kits Hill is the first book in The Brief Chronicles, a gripping family saga set in rural Lancashire during the Industrial Revolution.
A master storyteller Publishers Weekly
Skilfully constructed and very strong on period detail TLS
She writes so infernally well Daily Telegraph
Stylish, witty, poetic and true Spectator
A good feeling for place and period with its roots firmly in the earth Homes & Gardens
Genre: Historical Romance
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