A Man of Honour

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9780008242534 Author(s): Barbara Taylor Bradford Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2021 Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Pages: 448

Description: The prequel to the million-copy bestseller, A Woman of Substance, where, high on the Yorkshire moors, the story of Blackie OA?Neill and Emma Harte beginsA?¦ Orphaned and alone, 13-year-old Blackie OA?Neill must leave County Kerry to find work and put food in his mouth. His only chance of survival lies with his motherA?s brother, far away in Leeds.

There, amid the noise and bustle, the mills and manufactories of the clothing industry that have made Leeds one of EnglandA?s most prosperous cities, BlackieA?s spark of ambition becomes a flame. Working in his UncleA?s business, he nurtures a dream of throwing off the impotence of poverty, of building houses and perhaps even of becoming a gentleman.

And then, high on the Yorkshire moors, in the mists of a winter morning, he meets a kitchen maid called Emma Harte. And as the Victorian world gives way to the freedom of the Edwardian age, so a young man and a servant girl seize a chance, against the odds, to build a better lifeA?¦

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