Debbie Wastling
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Martha casts off the coat of Irish poverty. Determined and resourceful, she marries the father of her son, and they build Newcastle's most popular pub.
Set against the sweeping changes of Victorian England, this story reveals a fight for survival and respectability in a world where secret ...
Yorkshire, England, 1925
Opera Singer, Alice Neil-Gregory agreed to marry Amos Bell, train driver of the Flying Scotsman. She wishes to continue her career; Amos wants children. The couple acquires a home, and Amos has to deal with her opinionated sister, Bunty, who in 1932 married George ...
Elizabeth Sutherland, whose life was rosy as a child in Victorian England while growing up in a famous Newcastle pub ‘The Barley Mow’ by the River Tyne. When her Fath ...
This witty, caustic yet compassionate novel explores the meeting of two unlikely young people in 1923: Amos Bell, train driver of the Flying Scotsman, and an opera singer, Madame ...
1890
The story opens in Newcastle, Northern England, and we meet J.B. Sutherland—brewer and eventually the owner of the Victorian pub by the River Tyne, The Barley Mow. The family saga is told by his middle daughter, Elizabeth, whose childhood is wonderful until her father suddenly dies, ...
