This is a story of love and heartbreak set against the backdrop of World War II.In 1937, with the country preparing for impending war, eighteen-year-old Linden Woods finds employment as a junior secretary at a Black Country steelworks, where she befriends the charismatic and liberated Penny, daughter of wealthy steel magnate Charles Burgayne. While Charles comes to admire Linden's competence, his sons Edward and Hugh admire her vivacious looks and sharp intellect and despite the class differences, vie for her attention, but with vastly different methods. Linden grows to love one brother and despise the other, with devastating consequences.Set in the industrial Black Country, in rural South Staffordshire and in Eire, "Linden Woods" is a compulsive tale of love, desire and heartbreaking treachery about a remarkable group of people and the events that shape their lives.
- ISBN10 0727877089
- ISBN13 9780727877086
- Publish Date 15 September 2008 (first published 19 April 2007)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 May 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Severn House Large Print Books
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 464
- Language English