Are you looking for a little lockdown escapism?
Milton Keynes author Hettie Aston has just released Threads of Steel, an engaging tale set in North East England, just as the region and country gradually emerge from the Great Depression.
The page-turner is available on Amazon in paperback and in kindle format.
Here's the blurb...
Bettina and her younger siblings are bereft when their mother, a re-married widow, dies soon after giving birth to her fourth child.
With her work-shy, shiftless, step-father and his uncaring, mean spirited mother being incapable of providing for the family, Bettina, at the tender age of 15yrs, seeks and finds support from the wider family; particularly her aunt who is a strong female role-model.
Fortunately Bettina finds opportunities to apply her innate qualities of resolve, common sense and creativity to begin a fulfilling new life. She is exceptional, seeing through the frailties of human nature and taking opportunities, even in the most unlikely situations.
Building on the interest and skills first experienced at her late mother’s home-based dressmaking and sewing business, her love of fabric is further inspired by first observing then practising quilting with the women of a Durham mining community.
An account of one young woman’s pathway from difficult times but illuminated with good humour and intuitive insight into human nature...
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