Onwards Flows the River
โ Scribed by Windsor, Caroline
- Book ID
- 110464848
- Publisher
- Troubador Publishing Ltd
- Year
- 2017
- Tongue
- en-GB
- Weight
- 147 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781788031240
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
It is 1971. Hannah Matheson, whose affluent Quaker family lives in Devon, moves to a hostel in London to study for a degree. Her extravert and exuberant personality initially brings her into conflict with the hostel's caustic deputy warden, Jo Ackroyd, whose abusive upbringing was very different from her own. In desperation Hannah persuades her old schoolfriend, Kate Deveraux, who, following the death of her parents, is often lonely living in her London flat, to come and live with her at the hostel. Kate, a hospital receptionist, has long been valued by Hannah's family as a calming influence upon their daughter and she is a regular visitor to their home. Kate's unspoken affection for Hannah's solicitor brother, Aidan, has grown over the years and she longs for him to notice her. Jo and Kate get on well from the start and Kate is determined to help Hannah overcome her antipathy to the deputy warden. At Christmas Hannah invites Kate, Jo and Jo's younger sister, Beth, to stay with...
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