Tony was educated at the Central grammar for boys, whose alumni include Tony Garnett, the BBC Play for Today producer, and the actors Nicol Williamson and, contemporary with Tony, Kevin McNally. I liked him but he seemed to grow obsessed by her, to the point that he attempted to kill his love rival. This award-winning production, about a woman forced to live her life without love starred the brilliant Janet McTeer of The White Queen and Honourable Women fame as the honour-bound Riah Millican.

My mother gave it to me when I asked her for a good book as a teen and this is the book that got me hooked to reading. Katie Mulholland became a stage musical in 1983, composed by Eric Boswell (Ken Hill wrote and directed). As with many of the Fifteen Streets residents, the McQueens are big-hearted and blunt; opinionated and often speaking with no holds barred in the face of any attempt to go against social convention. One by one their neighbours had departed for the workhouse, their last stick of furniture carried off by the bailiffs.

It painted a picture of the "big hearted and blunt" McQueen family, giving me the impression that this would be a story about a warm, loving and tight knit but conservative family who would be shocked to meet their daughters new husband but eventually overcome their prejudices and welcome him into their lives. Rose promises to keep the secret and brings her father food every morning, which he shares with his friends who are also homeless. Matt tells her mother that she is now living with an Arab, as Rose is sworn to secrecy, she cannot divulge her true reason for staying in the Arab quarter.

Angus takes Van back to his home where Emily and Rosie also live- The dont take to kindly to her, they make her life hell- she trys to kill her self to which she fails but has a miscarry. Obviously with it being written in the 60s I was expecting it to not be 100% PC by modern standards.Provocative 16-year-old Vanessa was a member of the powerful and avaricious Ratcliffe family, and Angus Cotton a rough diamond who lived down among the goods yards. We see very little of them as a couple, even though they are together for 4 years - these are skipped over. Propelled by these screen credits, and newly married in 1997 to the actor and producer Suzan Crowley (his best man was his best friend, the actor Tim Bentinck), he decided to try his luck in LA.

When she brings him home, she discovers she cannot take the hateful stares, comments, and remarks and she turns to the bottle.Anyone that thinks of this novel as little more than fluffy romance will be surprised by the depth they discover. I think that in trying to make him a rugged working-class character Cookson went a little overboard. Set in mid-1950's England, this story tells of the wealthy, socially upwardly-progressive Ratcliffe family. But I was expecting it to have a point - some kind of statement about love and how hatred only begets hatred. Bridget's mother tries to get a local midwife to attend the birth, so that should the baby not be white, it can be killed.

She is rejected by her family and is found by her father's ex employee Angus Cotton who marries her and brings her home to his family.Before her death in 1998, she was the United Kingdom’s most widely read novelist, boasting sales in the hundreds of millions. I was interested in reading this because I saw the film version once, and I definitely prefer the film to the book. Her father was later revealed (by a biographer) to be Alexander Davies, a bigamist and gambler from Lanarkshire.