Debbie Wastling

The Sutherland Scandals (The Bell Family Series, #3) (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

THE SUTHERLAND SCANDALS

1890

The story opens in Newcastle, Northern England, and we meet J.B. Sutherlandbrewer and eventually the owner of the Victorian pub by the River Tyne, The Barley Mow. The family saga is told by his middle daughter, Elizabeth, whose childhood is wonderful until her father suddenly dies, and their eldest illegitimate brother, John Thomas, shows up at their father's funeral to inherit the pub.

Elizabeth is an artistic soul, often at odds with her overpowering older sisters and loathes her oldest brother, who takes over the pub by gambling away the profits (Scandal 1). They lose their livelihood and home; the pub must close.

Elizabeth manages to find jobs to keep food on the table, first helping an elderly lady, then with the suffragist movement, designing their posters and promoting their cause. During this time she meets the love of her life. A marine fitter, Percy Neil-Gregory (Scandal 2 according to her sisters, who believe she is marrying beneath her), who, like her, has a dark secret in his family. She married Percy after a long friendship, despite her sisters' disapprovals.

During the start of the 19th century, to give her family security, Elizabeth continued to work even when she had her first child, Alice Neil-Gregory. Percy, without discussing it with her, sailed to the USA with her youngest brother Benjamin to try and make his fortune (Scandal 3).

With her husband away, she finds herself pregnant for the second time. After many long months of pleading, on the day of her baby Marjorie's birthday, Percy returned from the USA. They move to Yorkshire with their family for a better job; with her saved inheritance from her share of the pub, they are able to buy a small house in Hull. As Elizabeth's daughters grow up, they become skilled in music and drama, and Elizabeth keeps working to pay for their classes. Alice becomes a soubrette on the stages of theatres, and Marjorie, the family seamstress, sews and designs costumes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bell Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798230533436
• Artikelnr.: 73513105

Autorenporträt

Debbie Wastling hails from Yorkshire, UK and is a writer of British

Historical novels, and now lives in Los Angeles. She started writing in high school when she wrote her first produced play, going on to direct over 75 musicals and plays plus writing music. Lately, grant writing has been her forte for arts education.

This novel, the third in the series, brings her great-grandparents romance

to the page. Full of the family scandals of Elizabeth from Newcastle from

the Sutherland brewery family. She lost both parents by age 12 and

joined the suffragist organisation, and by choosing her choice of

husband, the family moved to Hull, Yorkshire, where she gave birth to two

girls and performed in operettas.

The next novel in the series will be out later in 2025: Irish Secrets and Lies.