- Hardcover: 380 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Press; Library edition edition (17 Jun 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0593045874
- ISBN-13: 978-0593045879
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.2 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,334,919 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Saturday's child works hard for a living". A tale of three women all struggling with the lot of Saturday's child - Nellie, whose past conceals a brutal secret, Magsy O'Gara, mourning her lost husband, and her bright young daughter, Beth - but only time will reveal what future awaits them.
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It was 1950. Magsy O’Gara, her husband killed in the war, plodded through her daily routine as a hospital cleaner, dedicating all her spare time to Beth, her genius daughter. Pursued by men who admired her great beauty, she was determined to remain a widow. Nothing was to divert her from her gruelling schedule. Her goal was simple: Beth would become a doctor. Beth, however, wanted a normal life – a brother, a sister, a stepfather who might make her wonderful mother happy. So Beth was delighted when a personable man began to court Magsy. Across, the road at number 1, Nellie Hulme, trapped in a world of silence, watched the other two Saturday girls. Deaf since infancy, Nellie had a secret so huge that it amused her. What would folk have thought had they known her true position in life? And why did she ‘hear’ in her dreams?
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Saturday's child works hard for a living, so the tale goes, and this book is about three very different people, born on a Saturday whose lives get intermingled.
Nellie, deaf since childhood, makes lace for royalty. Magsy, a widow, works hard so her daughter Beth can have a good education, and Dot,a protestant, whose eldest son Frank marries Rachel, a Catholic, and runs a shop.
Nellie, deaf since childhood, makes lace for royalty. Magsy, a widow, works hard so her daughter Beth can have a good education, and Dot,a protestant, whose eldest son Frank marries Rachel, a Catholic, and runs a shop.
All come into contact with Miss Katherine Moore, an old lady crippled with arthritis who hates change and everybody around her.
Rachel befriends Katherine and gradually changes the old lady's attitude who eventually changes the lives of Magsy and Nellie.
This is a lovely story, spanning many years, and will be a book you can't put down. It has got to be one of Ruth Hamilton's better pieces.
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