Voices from the Sea [Hardcover]

'Evelyn Hood has been called Scotland's Catherine Cookson. Unfair. She has her own distinctive voice' SCOTS MAGAZINE 'Hood is immaculate in her historical detail' GLASGOW HERALD 'An extremely good read' HISTORICAL NOVELS REVIEW

'Evelyn Hood has been called Scotland's Catherine Cookson. Unfair. She has her own distinctive voice' - Scots Magazine 'Hood is immaculate in her historical detail' - The Herald 'An extremely good read' - Historical Novels Review --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

When Eppie Watt's husband is tragically drowned at sea, leaving her penniless with Charlotte, a young daughter, Eppie takes the post of housekeeper to Alexander, a wealthy widower. In the same house are Alexander's son and daughter, and his domineering mother. Alexander sees a way to escape his mother by proposing to Eppie. That would suit her too as he is willing to take on Charlotte as his own. She accepts but finds it causes more problems...The mother gossips to the villagers that Eppie is a gold digger; Alexander, now free of his mother, becomes domineering himself; Alexander quarrels with his son over a career and with his daughter who has been spoiled by her grandmother and is now self-willed and rebellious and the daughter takes it out on Charlotte, Eppie's daughter. Life is difficult for Eppie and she is fighting a losing battle. And when she meets Foy, a quarryman, she is very much drawn to him...

Evelyn Hood has had many jobs, including journalism and poultry farming. Now a full time writer, best known for family sagas set in and around her home town of Paisley, she has also written several stage plays, short stories, pantomimes and children's musicals.