
Chasing the Dream
A Passionate and Dramatic Story of Ambition, Sacrifice and Love: One of the Tyneside Sagas
Janet MacLeod Trotter(Author)
MacLeod Trotter Books (Publisher)
Published on 14. November 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
244 pages
978-1-908359-31-5 (ISBN)
Description
1920: Millie escapes the bleak pit village of Craston and eviction when her mother poses as a widow to start a new life running the station hotel in Ashborough. Haunted by childhood poverty Millie sees security and happiness in the form of handsome but wayward Dan Nixon. Dan pursues his own dream of playing professional football as a means of escaping the hardship and dangers of the mines and for a while it seems their dreams will come true. But as tragedy strikes, Millie's dreams begin to unravel and when a terrible, long-kept secret is exposed, her endurance is tested to the limit.
Passionate, dramatic, and spanning the 1920s to the 1950s, Chasing the Dream is a compelling story about the cost of ambition and the sacrifices we make for love, with a wonderfully warm and compassionate heroine.
Reviews / Votes
"Janet's picture of life in a North-East pit village between the wars springs from the canvas. It's spot on! Her characters are caught in the twists and turns of a lively plot. The story gallops along and keeps you guessing right to the end." The Newcastle Journal "Tales of war heroism and lies spice up a compelling novel." The Sunderland EchoMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Morpeth
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
380 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-908359-31-5 (9781908359315)
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Person
Janet MacLeod Trotter is the author of numerous bestselling and acclaimed novels, including The India Tea Series and The Raj Hotel Series. She was nominated for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and has twice been shortlisted for the Romantic Novelists' Association Novel of the Year Award. Her novels have been translated into nine different languages.