The Unloved Child
Prue Phillipson
Paperback
Dione Sheradon struggles to love her illegitimate child. What terrible deed will the unloved child perpetrate on his brother when they grow to manhood and fall in love with the same girl?
- New title
- ISBN 9781800420625
- Published Dec 2020
- Paperback
229 x 152mm (318 pages)
Dione Sheradon’s young love turns to bitter hatred when her betrothed, army officer Sir Ralph Barnet, deserts her on her father’s bankruptcy. Sure she is pregnant and despairing of her suicidal parents, she wanders into the arms of simple Jack Heron, a wagon driver for Wylam pit. They are swiftly married and he believes the child is his.
Dione has to become Dee Heron, living in a one-room house with her in-laws and never being quite accepted among the miners’ wives.
Dee rests gratefully in the love of Jack but her baby Billy reminds her of Ralph and she cannot love him. He becomes a troublesome child, doubly so when his brother Francis is born and Dee embraces Jack’s child with all the love she feels for Jack.
What terrible deed will the unloved child perpetrate on his brother when they grow to manhood and fall in love with the same girl?
Prue Phillipson was born in Newcastle in 1928 and studied English at London University. During her working life she has been a teacher, freelance journalist and supervisor for offenders on community service.
Prue has lived for the last forty-six years in Hexham, Northumberland. Her husband, Alan, has been her mainstay in all her writing years. She has five children, twelve grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
She has written fiction for many years, winning prizes for short stories and even having one read on the BBC. Prue spent fourteen years caring for her elderly in-laws and finally her mother. She wrote Lesson of Love drawing on her experience of her mother’s dementia in the light of her Christian faith. Since then, Prue has had seven novels and a short story collection published on line by E-bshop and historical novels in hard and paperback published by Quaester 2000 and Knox Robinson publishing. These last two have ceased trading but information about all her books can be obtained from her website Prue Phillipson Books and orders placed via her email address:
pru.phillipson@btopenworld.com
Her latest novel The Unloved Child is published by SilverWood Books, with a sequel, The Unloved Wife, to follow.
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