One Step Forward: a gripping and heart-warming saga set in Wales from much-loved bestseller Rosie Harris
Jun 2014 · Random House
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Fans of Dilly Court, Kitty Neale, Emma Hornby and Rosie Goodwin will love this vivid and compelling saga, set around Tiger Bay and Cardiff. Much-loved multi-million copy bestseller Rosie Harris has written such an immediate and beautiful novel, you'll feel you are living in the moment with the characters...
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'Had me hooked from the beginning' - 5 STARS
'I couldn't put it down' - 5 STARS
'A must read!' - 5 STARS
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EVEN WHEN LIFE SEEMS TO BE ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK, SHE NEVER GIVES UP...
Since the age of eight, Katie Roberts has dreamed of getting away from the Cardiff slums where she lives.
When she is only a girl her father, Lewis, is imprisoned for theft, leaving Katie and her mother homeless and penniless. Life is hard - not only because of their poverty but also because of the stigma of her father's shame.
When Lewis is released years later, she hopes that things will improve. But to Katie's horror, life becomes worse than she has ever known it. When she and her father are left alone together, Katie seeks happiness and love elsewhere, but as she struggles to make a new life for herself, there is difficulty and danger at every turn...
She longs to be free, but will she always be tied to the past?
What readers are saying!
'Had me hooked from the beginning' - 5 STARS
'I couldn't put it down' - 5 STARS
'A must read!' - 5 STARS
***********************************************************************************
EVEN WHEN LIFE SEEMS TO BE ONE STEP FORWARD, TWO STEPS BACK, SHE NEVER GIVES UP...
Since the age of eight, Katie Roberts has dreamed of getting away from the Cardiff slums where she lives.
When she is only a girl her father, Lewis, is imprisoned for theft, leaving Katie and her mother homeless and penniless. Life is hard - not only because of their poverty but also because of the stigma of her father's shame.
When Lewis is released years later, she hopes that things will improve. But to Katie's horror, life becomes worse than she has ever known it. When she and her father are left alone together, Katie seeks happiness and love elsewhere, but as she struggles to make a new life for herself, there is difficulty and danger at every turn...
She longs to be free, but will she always be tied to the past?
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About the author
Rosie Harris was born in Cardiff and grew up there and in the West Country. After her marriage she lived for some years on Merseyside before moving to Buckinghamshire where she still lives. She has three grown-up children and six grandchildren and writes full time.
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