Book Review : Margaret Dickinson : Without Sin

Without Sin

Author:  Margaret Dickinson

Title:  Without Sin

Genre:   fiction, contemporary fiction, family sagas, romance, contemporary, historical romance, general and sagas

 Synopsis:   Meg Kirkland fears her impudent tongue has caused her father’s dismissal from his job and forced her whole family from their home in middleditch farm. Worse still, her father abandons them outside the workhouse, leaving meg to care for her devastated mother, Sarah, and her little brother as tragedy continues to haunt the family. Issac Pendleton, master of the workhouse, rules the lives of all those within it walls, when Sarah becomes his latest mistress, her daughter is disgusted. Meg’s loyal friend, Jake, born and bred in the workhouse, has a maturity and understanding beyond his years. Yet it is Meg’s fiery independence that encourages Jake to leave the workhouse and seek employment on middleditch farm. His future is assured, but who will take care of Meg? The pretty, vivacious girl, once so innocent, becomes calculating and manipulative young woman who will stop at nothing to get her own way, even if it means betraying those she has loved. Without sin is Margaret Dickinson’s spirited historical saga of a passionate young woman who learns to fight for her own survival in a cruel world. The workhouse at southwell, Nottinghamshire, which has been magnificently restored by the national trust, is the inspiration for the setting of this novel. However, the characters and story are entirely fictious and have no relations whatsoever to any inmates or staff, past or present. My love and thanks, as always, to my family and friends for their constant support, help and encouragement.

Review:  this is a really good book and it is enjoyable story and meg sounds really strong having to look after her mother and brother after her father abandon them at the work house and glad meg has a friend to help her out and she helps him too and she helps him leave the workhouse where he was born and lived till he left to work at middleditch farm and she is disgusted when her mother starts a relationship with the workhouse owner and she hates that she is stuck in this place with her mother and brother.


Star Rating: 5 out of 5 stars


 

Book Review: Margaret Dickinson: Twisted Strands

Twisted Strands

Author: Margaret Dickinson

Title: Twisted Strands

Genre: Contemporary Fiction, Family Sagas, Historical Romance, Historical Fiction,

I was given this book along with tangled threads.

Book Dedication: With great affection and deep admiration this book is dedicated to my uncle, Brian Copley, who enlisted in 1914 at the age of sixteen in the 8^th battalion Sherwood foresters, (Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire regiment) and served throughout the war.

Thankfully, he survived the trenches to life a long and happy life and it has been a privilege to share his memories and experiences through his personal diaries of the time.

This book has 400 pages and 62 chapters in it.

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 l would tell people to read tangled threads first so you know the full story not just half.

Synopsis: It is 1914 and Eveleen Hardcastle, now in her early thirties, has married Richard. Her longing for children is the only shadow over the happiness, but the world war breaks out, Eveleen is left to manage the Nottingham Factory alone while Richard goes to fight for his country. Eveleen's mother, Mary, has found happiness at last in her marriage to Josh. Her granddaughter, Birdie, still lives at home and has a spirited, strong will which her grandmother finds hard to control. When Andrew, the love of her life, also enlists, Birdie finds consolation in a rewarding vocation. Nursing wounded soldiers sent home from the front, she gains a maturity beyond her years. But every day the casualty list from the hell of the trenches grows longer. Bridie nurses her grandfather on his death bed as her boyfriend is fighting the war, she became a nurse to help people and keeps in touch with her auntie Eveleen who husband is also fighting in the war and she loves her family.

Review: I found this really easy to get in to and hard to put down once l started reading it I was happy to be reading the follow on to tangled threads. I am glad that Eveleen moved on and got married. I was happy to read that Eveleen's mother found someone who loves her after her husband's tragic death and she is still raising her granddaughter. It is nice to read that Bridie gets to meet her grandfather and she nurses him on his death bed which is very sad to read but glad her grandfather was not on his own when he passed away. Bridie's uncle and boyfriend are both fighting the war. Leaving the women they love behind. Bridie also helps nurses soldiers who have been hurt on the front line and she must see loads of deaths when they can not save the soldiers and she watched her grandfather passed away to poor girl. I hope Eveleen's husband and Bridie's boyfriend comes back from the war alive and unhurt so Bridie and Eveleen do not lose any more people they love. I hope Eveleen's brother and Birdie's father is ok. I can not put in to words how great this book is l would tell people to read it for themselves to know how great it really is. This book is a must read l am glad it is on my book shelf with the first book in the series tangled threads.

About The Author: Margaret Dickinson was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Margaret Dickinson moved to the coast at the age of seven and so began her love for the sea and the Lincolnshire landscape. Her ambition to be a writer began early and she had her first novel published at the age of twenty-five. This was followed by a number of further titles including the clippie girls, fairfield hall and welcome home. Margaret is a Sunday times top ten bestseller.

About The Book: I love the book cover and l like that it comes in two different book cover designs and l love the colour and it is not too bright or not too dull.

Star Rating: Five Out Of Five Stars

 

Book Review: Margaret Dickinson: Tangled Threads

Tangled Threads

Author: Margaret Dickinson

Title: Tangled Threads

Genre: Contemporary Fiction, Family Sagas, Historical Romance, Literature And Fiction,

I was given this book along with twisted strands.

Book Dedication: For Dennis

This book has 464 pages and 60 chapters in it.

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.

Synopsis: A spellbinding saga of family ties, heartbreak and rediscovered love. For Eveleen Hardcastles life gets no better than growing up on pear tree farm in the Lincolnshire countryside. Her family works so hard for the dunmore estate and Eveleen finds it impossible to resist the charms of their employer's son, Stephen dunmore. But Jimmy, ever quick to antagonize, ensures that his sister's clandestine trysts do not remain so for long . Mary Hardcastles reacts to the news of her daughter's affair with a shocking ferocity, which seems to be born more of bitterness than maternal protectiveness. But what is it that fuels Mary's resentment towards her daughter? Unable to ignore her own feelings, Eveleen continues to meet Stephen in secret. But deception has a cruel price to pay when her beloved father is found dead from a heartattack, and worse yet, Stephen, far from providing Eveleen with the comfort she craves, deserts her in her hour of need and callously evicts the Hardcastles from the farm, suddenly homeless, Eveleen is left to take the family reins and fights to make a new life for her family in Nottinghamshire. Then she makes a stunning discovery about her mother's past which changes their lives for ever.... Eveleen's brother get a girl pregnant so they are kicked out and have to take the girl with them and they have to find yet another home and they make the boy marry the girl who he got pregnant and the boy then ran away to join the navy and when the girl dies in childbirth they are left to raise her daughter and the girl never gets to meet her father.

Review: I found this book really easy to get in to and hard to put down once l started reading it l also have the follow on to this book twisted strands and l am happy to be able to read the follow on and I was hooked on this book after reading the first page. It was sad to read that Eveleen's father passed away due to a heartattack. When her brother gets a girl pregnant they make him marry her. It was sad to read that the girl died in childbirth and her husband had ran away to join the navy. I was glad to read that Eveleen and her mother was raising the poor girl who did not meet her mother and her father was no where to be seen because he was in the navy. It is horrible to read that Eveleen gets all the blame for everything that happened and her brother gets no blame. They had a home until her got that poor girl pregnant so l think he should get the blame. I thought family was supposed to stick together not fight. It is upsetting that they have to break the news to Rebecca's father that she died in childbirth and that her daughter was alive and well. I wish that Rebecca had lived and she was raising her daughter and they did not have to give her father bad news about his precious daughter.

About The Author: Margaret Dickinson was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Margaret Dickinson moved to the coast at the age of seven and so began her love for the sea and the Lincolnshire landscape. Her ambition to be a writer began early and she had her first novel published at the age of twenty-five. This was followed by a number of further titles including the clippie girls, fairfield hall and welcome home. Margaret is a Sunday times top ten bestseller.

About The Book: This book comes with two different covers and l really like the cover and the blue is a really nice colour not too bright and not too dull.

Star Rating: Five Out Of Five Stars.

Book Review: Margaret Dickinson: Red Sky In The Morning

Red Sky in the Morning

Author: Margaret Dickinson

Title: Red Sky In The Morning

Genre: Fiction, Romantic, Contemporary Fiction, Family Saga, Literature Fiction, Contemporary, Literature. Romance,

I was given this book.

Book Dedication: For Zoe and Scott, My daughter and son-in-law

This book has 464 pages and 33 chapters.

I highly recommend this book.

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.

Synopsis: A young girl stands alone in the cobbled marketplace of a small Lincolnshire   town, bedraggled, soaked through and very afraid. No one knows or cares who she is or where she has come from. Only kind farmer Eddie appleyard recognizes something in the girl touches his heart, in a drunken haze Eddie takes her home. His wife Bertha accuses him of infidelity and turns Anna out in to the cold, wet night. Eddie hides the girl in a tumbledown shepherd's cottage that becomes her new home. Anna's arrival will change their lives: Eddie's, Bertha's and even that of their young son Tony, Torn between his warning parents and the mysterious stanger. It will take years for the secrets of Anna's former life to be revealed, but Bertha bides her time and awaits her moment, little realizing the tragedy her vengeance will unleash. Anne ends up pregnant after she was raped and Eddie helps Anna through her pregnancy and when she gives birth to her daughter and she stays in the cottage for years and Eddie and his son Tony help Anne loads and helps with Anna's daughter and Anna keeps the secret of what happened to her and how she got pregnant and how she got the scar on her fingers and why she run away from home and her family and the guy who raped Anna turns up with his dad and ends up stabbing Eddie who passes away and Anna, Tony, Maisie and Bertha try to save him but is is too late.

Review: I really found this book a mystery at first because of Anna just turning up and standing so still in the marketplace and it was very nice of Eddie and his son Tony helping her through everything she went through and Eddie helping her through the birth of her daughter and Anna helps Eddie with stuff around the farm but tries to keep out of the sight of Eddie's wife because she does not like Anne and Bertha sounds like a bitch and gets jealous of Eddie trying to help people because Eddie had a kind heart and Tony has a good heart like his dad. Tony takes after his dad not his mum. Tony took food to Anna for his dad when his dad was busy. I found this book really easy to get in to and hard to put down once l got in to it. I was sad to read that Anna's grandad was murdered and she was raped and had to run away from home to be safe from it happening again and her having to marry her rapist and I like Eddie and him helping poor Anna and her daughter Maisie and l like that Tony takes after his dad not his mum. After Eddie murder Tony kept helping Anna and Maisie because he knew that what his dad would want him to do. His mum Bertha left the farm after Eddie's passing because she felt guilty about telling the people who murdered Eddie and Anna's grandad where they could find Anna and her daughter Maisie. Tony helped teach Maisie to read and write which l think was nice of him. I wish l could rate this book more then five stars because it is worth more then the five stars l rated it.

About The Author: Margaret Dickinson was born in Gainsborough, Lincolnshire, Margaret Dickinson moved to the coast at the age of seven and so began her love for the sea and the Lincolnshire landscape. Her ambition to be a writer began early and she had her first novel published at the age of twenty-five. This was followed by a number of further titles including the clippie girls, fairfield hall and welcome home. Margaret is a Sunday times top ten bestseller.

About The Book: I really like the book cover of this book and l like the font.

Star Rating: Five Out Of Five Stars