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Gladys Reeks

Deze serie vertelt het verhaal van een jonge vrouw die vastbesloten is om een beter leven op te bouwen tegenover formidabele tegenslagen en een hard sociaal landschap. Gesitueerd tegen de achtergrond van het 19e-eeuwse Engeland, portretteert het levendig de strijd tegen armoede, de beperkingen van klasse en de strijd voor persoonlijke autonomie. Lezers zullen worden aangetrokken door verhalen over veerkracht, onverwachte romantiek en het onophoudelijke najagen van dromen, terwijl ze navigeren door de complexe realiteiten van die tijd.

The Woman from Dover
The Girl from Old Nichol

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    The Girl from Old Nichol

    • 366bladzijden
    • 13 uur lezen

    Gladys Tunner is born in the rough East End of London in 1829. Her parents are alcoholics, and when sheas a teen they try to sell her to their landlord. Gladys runs, leaving behind her only protectors: Toughie, an orphan, and Sally, a kind midwife. She lands in the countryside town of Dover, where she earns a living as a maid and a barmaid and dreams of being a governess. She also has the unlikely fortune to be romantically pursued by an aristocrat, only to experience the frustrating limitations of her class status. She must work to elude the capricious hand of fate, or die as she began, a pauper in a London slum.

    The Girl from Old Nichol
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    The Woman from Dover

    • 330bladzijden
    • 12 uur lezen
    4,2(6)Tarief

    Stung with the bitter loss of the life she had built, Gladys's story from The Girl from Old Nichol continues with Gladys as a housekeeper for the wealthy widower, James Hornby. Reunited with Toughie for one night before he leaves for New York with his bride, their romantic interlude leaves Gladys alone and pregnant. Fearing the workhouse, Gladys confesses all to James, who offers to marry her and legitimize Toughie's baby. The new family lives happily, adding a daughter of their own. When Toughie returns years later as a widower, he meets his son and begs Gladys to travel to New York with him. Torn between the man she has loved since childhood and a comfortable life of luxury for herself and her children, Gladys faces a decision that will only lead to devastation; no matter what choice she makes, someone will be hurt and abandoned.

    The Woman from Dover