RING OF CLAY by Margaret Kaine

Margaret Kaine . Unknown Year . English

Despite an early life marked by tragedy and hardship, Beth Sherwin dreams of staying on at school and even going to university - a heady ambition for a Potteries girl in 1956. Then a brutal encounter leaves her pregnant at seventeen. Unwilling to break her widowed mother's heart, Beth bears her secret alone and gives up her baby daughter for adoption. It seems her desperate gamble has succeeded. She finishes school, takes on a challenging job and meets Michael, charming eldest son of the wealthy Rushton family. She has to fight both class prejudice and the jealousy of her old enemy Ursula to win him - but when he asks her to marry him, Beth faces a dilemma. Does she dare tell Michael her guilty secret and risk losing him? And even if he stands by her, can she bear the certainty that the brutal stranger who fathered her child will be at her wedding?

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About the Author

Born and educated in the Potteries, Margaret Kaine now lives in Eastbourne. Her short stories have been published widely in women's magazines in the UK, and also in Australia, Norway, South Africa and Ireland. RING OF CLAY, her debut novel, won both the RNA's New Writer's Award in 2002 and the Society of Authors' Sagittarius Prize in 2003. She has written several romantic sagas about life in the Potteries between the 50's and 70's, published by Hodder & Stoughton, and translations include German and French. All are published as ebooks, paperbacks and hardbacks, also Large Print and Audio - cassette and CD. A romantic suspense novel, DANGEROUS DECISIONS, set in the Edwardian era against a more cosmopolitan background was published by Choc Lit, and is available both as a paperback and ebook. Also in Large Print and Audio. Allison & Busby published THE BLACK SILK PURSE, an Edwardian romantic historical novel/mystery, available in hardback, paperback, ebook, Large Print and Audio. A LIFE OF SECRETS, published by Allison & Busby, was released in hardback in January, 2020, with the paperback and ebook due out in June. Hodder & Stoughton brought out a revised edition of Song for a Butterfly with the new title of A DAUGHTER'S HOPE, in April 2020.

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