Opal
  • Published: 15 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9780552160735
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $30.00
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Opal

a moving and heart-warming Yorkshire saga of drive and determination that will stay with you long after you finish the last page

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1 Jun 2011
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15 Mar 2010
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One woman's fight for a good life for her family.

Edgar Carson has returned from the trenches to find that the land fit for heroes didn't exist. The only nice thing that happened to him was Opal, the small, tough, Yorkshire beauty who married him. But by the time the 20s came, Edgar was on the dole, and Opal was pregnant for the second time. Bitterness began to corrode Edgar's spirit. But Opal was a fighter - she wasn't going to let the times, the drudgery, the poverty destroy her or her family. She started with a 'house shop', just sweets and cotton reels sold from the top of her sideboard, and from then on she didn't stop - for Opal's dream was her own department store and a grand life for all of them...
  • Published: 15 March 2010
  • ISBN: 9780552160735
  • Imprint: Corgi
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $30.00
Categories:

About the author

Elvi Rhodes

Elvi Rhodes was born and educated in Yorkshire. She is the author of many bestselling novels including Opal, Doctor Rose, Ruth Appleby, The Golden Girls, Madeleine, The House of Bonneau, Cara's Land, The Rainbow Through the Rain, The Bright One, The Mountain, Portrait of Chloe, Spring Music, Midsummer Meeting, The Birthday Party, Mulberry Lane, A Blessing In Disguise and The Apple Tree. A collection of stories, Summer Promise and Other Stories, is also published by Corgi Books.

Also by Elvi Rhodes

Mixed Blessings
The World is a Smaller Place/Whose Baby are You, Babe? (Storycuts)
Summer Promise/A Gull Named Helen/Children on the Shore (Storycuts)
Festival at Rowdean/A Very Special Painting Class (Storycuts)
A Matter of Time/A New Beginning (Storycuts)
A Time to Remember/Model of Beauty/View from Beacon Hill (Storycuts)
Channel Crossing/Roundabout/The Meeting (Storycuts)
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