Yorkshire Rose

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Rose Sugden is a Yorkshire girl through and through. In pre-First World War Bradford, Roseâ maternal grandfather, Caleb Rimmington, is one of Bradfordâ wealthiest mill owners and her father is a highly talented tapestry designer. Laurence Sugdenâ artistic talent is not put to use at Rimmingtonâ Mill, however, for Caleb, disappointed in his daughterâ marriage to a mere working-man, has disowned her and refuses all contact with her three children. To Rose, and her brother Noel and sister Nina, their grandfather Caleb is a myth they long to meet; even more so, they long to meet their Rimmington cousins, cousins they can only read about in the gossip columns of their local paper. When Caleb dies, this dream becomes reality. Though the gulf between the Sugdens and the Rimmingtons is vast, with the Sugdens living in a modest terraced house in the shade of Rimmingtonâ Mill, and William, Harry and Lottie, the cousins, living in a grandiose mansion on the outskirts of the city, it is a gulf that mutual curiosity overcomes. Intense, passionate relationships follow. There are broken marriages and broken lives, and throughout it all Rose is the warp and weft that keeps the family intact. Sustained by her burning ambition to follow in her fatherâ footsteps and to be a Head Tapestry Designer, and to be so at Rimmingtonâ Mill, and by her unquenchable and seemingly hopeless love for Harry, will Rose at last find the happiness that has so long eluded her?

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