Mary Walton was the apple of her da's eye. For long now he had been out of work, and Mary was his only comfort during those dark years of the Depression, when unemployment and a nagging, ambitious wife gnawed away at his self-respect. Once he was a man who had held his head high with Geordie pride; now his only hope was that Mary would escape from the grinding poverty of the Tyneside slums that had held him a prisoner for so many years. But then something happened to Mary that shattered all his dreams of her future--an event that was to split a family and influence its members for generations to follow...
- ISBN10 0552095966
- ISBN13 9780552095969
- Publish Date 1 September 1983 (first published August 1972)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 December 1993
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Bantam Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 320
- Language English