Lovers Meeting

'In the bestselling tradition of Catherine Cookson' - MIDDLESBOROUGH EVENING GAZETTE 'Sheer descriptive talent shines through here...gritty...powerful stuff' - DORSET EVENING ECHO 'Catherine Cookson-readalike...a delight' - COLCHESTER EVENING GAZETTE When she is just a child, Josie Langley is thrown out of the family home. Her grandfather, whose thriving shipyard was once the pride of Victorian Monkwearmouth, has never forgiven his eldest son for marrying the serving girl, Josie's mother. Moving from Sunderland to London where she and her mother find kitchen work, Josie struggles against poverty and misfortune - and against the relentless acts of vengeance of one of the workers sacked from the shipyard. Lured back to Sunderland, Josie meets the two men who are to have a devastating impact on her life.