The Railway Girls

By: Leah Fleming

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Paperback | 16 January 2017

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384 Pages

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19.8 x 13.0 x 2.3

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From the Acclaimed Author of The Last Pearl and Dancing at the Victory Cafe, this is a beautiful novel about family secrets, betrayal and redemption.

Deep in the dales of the West Riding Fells lies Scarsbeck, a remote village peopled by a close-knit community of colourful characters: Ellie Birkett, steadfastly resisting her mother's attempts to marry her off; Vicar Hardy, wrestling with the temptations of the flesh; Ezra Bulstrode, village headmaster, with an unhealthy dedication to the education of his young students; and enigmatic woman Beth Wildman, who believes she can foresee the future. Surrounded by wild moorland and the majestic Yorkshire peaks, time seems to stand still in this magical corner of the world.

But change is on its way. The dales echo with fearsome noise; construction scars the hillside: the railway is coming - right through Scarsbeck village. And with the arrival of a huge workforce charged with building the railway, the peaceful idyll is shattered for ever.

About the Author

Leah Fleming was born in Lancashire and is married with three sons and a daughter. She writes from an old farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales and an olive grove in Crete.

Industry Reviews

'I enjoyed it enormously.It's a moving and compelling story about a lifetime's journey in search of the truth'
Rachel Hore

'A born storyteller'
Kate Atkinson

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