Take this Woman: A moving and utterly compelling coming-of-age saga
Dec 2010 · Hachette UK
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After growing up in bitterness, can she overcome past events to find the happiness she deserves?
Take This Woman is a powerful saga about learning to put your past behind you in the pursuit of happiness, from bestselling author Josephine Cox. Perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin and Kitty Neale.
Blackburn, 1947. In the tiny front parlour fourteen-year-old Laura Blake watches her beloved father die. But not before he tells her she will make something of her life. Laura never forgets his words. Yet her path to success proves to be a rocky one. Forced to trundle a cart around the back streets, selling other folk's cast-offs to support her family, Laura learns enough to start work in her uncle's furniture shop. But then fate deals another cruel blow when Laura is brutally raped. Bearing the child of her attacker in secret, she vows to make the world pay for its injustice towards her.
As she grows older her protective shell hardens even as her beauty blossoms, and her new toughness helps her forge a successful career in the antiques business. But it is in affairs of the heart that Laura stumbles, and before she can find fulfilment, she must learn to put the past behind her, and give as well as take.
What readers are saying about Take This Woman:
'Has you gripped from first page onwards. You get lost in amongst the characters, feeling like you are there with them every inch of the way'
'The story was full of twists and turns. I found it difficult to put down, reading well into the night sometimes! Brilliant'
'Loved it. Fantastic read and very exciting'
Take This Woman is a powerful saga about learning to put your past behind you in the pursuit of happiness, from bestselling author Josephine Cox. Perfect for fans of Rosie Goodwin and Kitty Neale.
Blackburn, 1947. In the tiny front parlour fourteen-year-old Laura Blake watches her beloved father die. But not before he tells her she will make something of her life. Laura never forgets his words. Yet her path to success proves to be a rocky one. Forced to trundle a cart around the back streets, selling other folk's cast-offs to support her family, Laura learns enough to start work in her uncle's furniture shop. But then fate deals another cruel blow when Laura is brutally raped. Bearing the child of her attacker in secret, she vows to make the world pay for its injustice towards her.
As she grows older her protective shell hardens even as her beauty blossoms, and her new toughness helps her forge a successful career in the antiques business. But it is in affairs of the heart that Laura stumbles, and before she can find fulfilment, she must learn to put the past behind her, and give as well as take.
What readers are saying about Take This Woman:
'Has you gripped from first page onwards. You get lost in amongst the characters, feeling like you are there with them every inch of the way'
'The story was full of twists and turns. I found it difficult to put down, reading well into the night sometimes! Brilliant'
'Loved it. Fantastic read and very exciting'
Ratings and reviews
4.6
16 reviews
Karen King
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February 26, 2013
An excellent read...again... could not wait to pick the material up and hated having to put it down
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yvonne coggins
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November 4, 2017
Too long and drawn out, poor endi g
Frances Kendall
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April 2, 2015
Truly love reading her books
About the author
Josephine Cox was born in a cotton-mill house in Blackburn, one of ten children. At the age of sixteen, Josephine met and married her husband Ken, and had two sons. When the boys started school, she decided to go to college and eventually gained a place at Cambridge University. She was unable to take this up as it would have meant living away from home, but she went into teaching - and started to write her first full-length novel. Her strong, gritty stories are taken from the tapestry of life.
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