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Life is hard for all the close-knit fishing families on the northeast coast. Here in one volume are two of Theresa Tomlinson's gripping novels about the fisher folk of Sandwick Bay, in which the sea and the pull of the tide ultimately shape all their destinies.
School has little to offer young Liza Welford, who must come to terms with the hard life she was born into. While the men in her family regularly face death on the stormy seas, the women – the flither pickers – must follow the daily grind of gathering shellfish from the shore in all kinds of weather, cleaning and baiting the long lines and gutting fish, along with the everyday tasks of looking after children and providing food for the family.
Set at the time of the Boer War, when many young men preferred the adventure of joining the army, to the dreary everyday danger of fishing. THE HERRING GIRLS tells the story of Dory Lythe and her struggles to keep her family out of the dreaded workhouse. It also describes hard work of gutting the herrings, when the herring fleet makes its annual appearance in the Whitby area, featuring many of the same characters from the first story and continues the story of Liza Welford.
Theresa Tomlinson grew up in North Yorkshire and was fascinated by the stories her grandmother told of the fisher women who travelled by train from the fishing villages to the towns, with baskets of fresh fish to sell. ‘The women wore spotlessly clean aprons - and the fish they sold was the best you could get.’ Based loosely on real events, this novel is also inspired by photographs of the period by the famous Whitby photographer – Frank Meadow Sutcliffe.
Genre: Historical
School has little to offer young Liza Welford, who must come to terms with the hard life she was born into. While the men in her family regularly face death on the stormy seas, the women – the flither pickers – must follow the daily grind of gathering shellfish from the shore in all kinds of weather, cleaning and baiting the long lines and gutting fish, along with the everyday tasks of looking after children and providing food for the family.
Set at the time of the Boer War, when many young men preferred the adventure of joining the army, to the dreary everyday danger of fishing. THE HERRING GIRLS tells the story of Dory Lythe and her struggles to keep her family out of the dreaded workhouse. It also describes hard work of gutting the herrings, when the herring fleet makes its annual appearance in the Whitby area, featuring many of the same characters from the first story and continues the story of Liza Welford.
Theresa Tomlinson grew up in North Yorkshire and was fascinated by the stories her grandmother told of the fisher women who travelled by train from the fishing villages to the towns, with baskets of fresh fish to sell. ‘The women wore spotlessly clean aprons - and the fish they sold was the best you could get.’ Based loosely on real events, this novel is also inspired by photographs of the period by the famous Whitby photographer – Frank Meadow Sutcliffe.
Genre: Historical
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