Candles In The Storm - Couverture rigide

'Magnificent... More books like this and TV soaps could be all washed up' Northern Echo (Northern Echo)

'The author's passion for the north-east of England is a constant presence in this attention-Bradder of a novel' Coventry Evening Telegraph (Coventry Evening Telegraph)

'Rita's sharp, darting prose with deliciously gossipy undercurrents, perfectly portrays the fragility of lives dependent on the sea... Rita takes us into the heart of a hardy community in a novel full of local flavour, atmosphere traditions and habits' Sunderland Echo (Sunderland Echo)

'Warm, inspired historical writing...a masterful author' North Wales Chronicle (North Wales Chronicle)

The storm that's raging when fisherman's daughter Daisy Appleby is born in a village just north of Sunderland could be taken as a warning of a turbulent life ahead. It's during another storm fifteen years later that her father and brothers are lost and Daisy rescues William, heir of a wealthy Southwick family, with whom she falls in love. Soon, as her reward for saving him, Daisy is working for William's irascible aunt, while local lad Alf continues to court her. Warned off by Daisy's grandmother, William denies his own feelings and so it will be many years later, after much hardship and turmoil, that Daisy finds the happiness she deserves, amidst of the drama of the Great War.