Author: Tania Crosse
Title:
The River Girl
Genre:
Contemporary Fiction, Family Sagas, Historical Romance, Contemporary
Romance, Fiction, Romance, Historical, Contemporary, Family, Sagas,
I
was given this book along with Morwellham's child.
Book
Dedication: For Pearlikins, who nurtured my interest in both medicine
and plants.
And
for my husband, who has been the rock of my life.
This
book has 544 pages.
I
would tell people that you should step outside your comfort zone with
books because it is good to add more authors and genres to your
reading portfolio. Even if you do not read books like this.
I
normally read books of this genre but l also stepped outside my
comfort zone with authors and genres l am so glad l did because l
have read so many great books and come across some great authors.
I
highly recommend this book but you should read the Morwellham's child
first as this is the follow on to that book.
Synopsis:
Brought up on her uncle's lowly tenant farm, Elizabeth Thornton
yearns to escape his clutches. But when a vengeful obsession from
another source comes back to haunt her – and the man she loves
reveals a dark secret – each of them is forced to confront a
personal terror. When Elizabeth's auntie dies in childbirth her uncle
turns his attention to Elizabeth because he says she looks just like
her auntie and he wants to marry Elizabeth but her mother has a plan
to get her away from him when she dies of cancer but he will not like
it.
Review:
I found this book really easy to get in to and hard to put down once
l started reading it. I was happy to be able to carry on the story
from Morwellham's child. I was sad to read that Elizabeth's dad,
auntie and mother all passed away. Leaving Elizabeth with her uncle
who tried to rape her and he tried to get her to marry him but her
mother made plans for her to be a live in nurse maid for Josiah so
she was not around her uncle because her mother knew what he was like
with women. I hated reading that her uncle cut off all her hair off
and made her fall to the point that her eye was nearly closed and it
was horrible to read that he tried to sell her to Maurice Brett and
Maurice wanted to marry Elizabeth and he was going to make her look
after his mother but l was glad stood up to her uncle but it was
horrible that he attacked her and she hit him with a rock to get him
off her because he could of raped her. I was glad she ran in to
Richard when she did but wished it had not been him getting thrown
off a horse on to his sore leg. I was happy that Elizabeth was safe
from her uncle. Richard was going to take her back to her uncle but
she told him no and he thought that Elizabeth was died when she ran
in to the path of the horse so he pulled back the cloak and said it
is you. Richard seen elizabeth's ripped clothes. He took her back to
the place where she felt safe when he got the horse that ran away
when it got scared. Richard waited until chanel was upstairs before
he asked if her uncle had raped her and she said no but he has
attacked me before. Richard went why did you not say anything. She
said you wanted me gone so l had no other choice to go back to him. I
thought Elizabeth and Richard loved each other when they first seen
each other that day when Richard and Chanel arrived back from France
but they did not want to say how they felt about each other. Richard
had seen Elizabeth on the day of her auntie's funeral when she was
younger. Richard being ill and Elizabeth having to look after his
daughter who did not speak any English. But they had a happy ending
almost apart from losing their baby and Elizabeth nearly dying .
Thankfully Elizabeth survived and her uncle marriaged another woman
and his son Daniel and her cousin died when he was down the mine and
poor Elizabeth was there when they pulled out the body of her beloved
cousin Daniel. Rebecca and Adam Bradley was in this book from
Morwellham's child and they was helping Elizabeth and Richard.
Richard's uncle had put some money in to the building of a boat
before he died in the war and they was money put aside from the boats
profits not knowning about it Richard lost everything because of
Maurice until Adam found the person who now owned the shares in the
boat he owned that Richard's uncle had put money in to halp build it
and it helped them get their home back. But Richard ended up in
prison because of Maurice he had kidnapped Chanel and wanted
Elizabeth and he shot Maurice in the shoulder and the police thought
that is what killed Maurice but that was not the case Richard was a
trained shot he could of shot him in the head but the fall killed
Maurice. I was happy that he did not go to jail and they got the
house back and they did not have to worry about Maurice or
Elizabeth's uncle. I was happy that Adam got to meet who made the
ointment to save his arm and they did not know it was Elizabeth until
Richard notice Adam's arm and said did your doctor ask another doctor
about a ointment to help with the healing? Adam reply yes Richard
said that was Elizabeth who made the ointment l remember the doctor
asking. Adam and Rebecca was happy to meet the person who helped save
his arm through the ointment.
About
The Author: Dartmoor historical novelist Tania Crosse was born in
London but at a very young age she moved to Surrey where her love of
the countryside took root. She always enjoyed reading and has
composed stories ever since she could hold a pen. After studying
french Literature at university, she devoted twenty years to bringing
up her three children. But her passion for writing never left her,
and side by side with her in-depth research on to Victorian social
history, she began to pen her novels in earnest as her family grew
up. When Tania discovered Morwellham Quay, the restored Victorian
cooper port and now living history museum in Devon, she fell in love
with this magical place
and felt a spiritual compulsion to create a story that would
illustrate life there in times gone by. This led to the publication
of her debut novel, 'Morwellham's Child' and now Tania has thrilled
her readers with over 100,000 copies sold of her first two titles
alone. She is rated among the top five per cent of authors for
library loans in the uk, and her books are now being published in the
us and translated in to European languages.
Tania is continuing to work on her series of novels illustrating
the rich history of Tavistock and the surrounding area of Dartmoor
from Victorian times to the 1950's. She hates being categorized as
a writer of historical romance. The history comes first, she
insists, and the human tales develop from her research. The
characters lead harsh, demanding lives and their stories are often
cruel and harrowing. ' l tell it like it was', she says. Tania has
been happily married for forty years and claims she would never have
achieved her success without her husband's support. They live partly
in Berkshire and partly at their tiny cottage on Dartmoor where Tania
retreats to write and absorbs the atmosphere of the places that
inspire her.
About
The Book. This book cover is really nice and the colours is not too
bright or not too dull. The font is really nice not too big and not
too small.
Star
Rating: Five Out Of Five Stars
