More Tales of the West Riding [electronic resource]

Bentley, Phyllis2014

eBook

Find it!
Remove More Tales of the West Riding [electronic resource] from your current list Save More Tales of the West Riding [electronic resource] to your current list

Summary

Phyllis Bentley returns to the West Riding to tell tales of life, love, murder, betrayal and friendship. Amongst the familiar mills, towns and rolling hills, we find heart-warming and sometimes heartbreaking characters brought to life with Bentleys charismatically authentic touch. Broken into two parts, Past Events, and Present Occasions, we visit first the West Riding of the late Victorian and early Edwardian Eras. We witness a man lie, cheat and kill for the object of his desire. Friends are pulled apart by their own rivalry. A child is punished for the crimes of her parents. In the sometimes harsh reality of this period, we still find companionship, humour and hope.In Present Occasions, we return to the more modern West Riding of the 1970s. Here, although time has moved on, we see the same salt-of-the-earth characters. But is there a place for the mills, with their traditional ways of life, in the modern world?