The Mallow Years (CH) (Charnwood Large Print Library Series)

From the winner of the 1988 Boots Romantic Novel of the Year Award. Kit Chapman, daughter of a Lancashire mill-owner who made his fortune by ruthlessly exploiting the women and children who spin his cotton, has been given the privilege of managing her inheritance - if she proves herself to be as strong as her father. Joss Greenwood, a weaver, has dedicated his life to the mill-owners' victims. They meet on the moors they both love - and then again on opposite sides of the war between the industrial age and the gentle world it replaced. And their friendship becomes love...