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The Iron Master (Hardcover)

by June Gadsby (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 239 pages
  • Publisher: Robert Hale Ltd (30 April 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0709073712
  • ISBN-13: 978-0709073710
  • Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,513,066 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Newcastle 1908. Turning down a proposal of marriage from her older employer is perhaps the first mistake in Ellie Martin's young life. Leaving the professor and running back to a family in trouble is the second. A new beginning awaits them in Durham, but at what cost? Her mother, with a dark secret in her past, mysteriously obtains jobs for her men in an iron foundry - and Ellie finds the magic she dreams of with Adam, son of the iron-master of ill-repute. However, the hatred harboured by Ellie's mother for the Rockwells leads Ellie to believe that she is in love with her half-brother. And so she returns to Newcastle and tries to ignore her heart. Then Adam goes to war. But will love save the day?


From the Author

Writing The Iron Master was a joy, mainly because it allowed me to travel not only in space, but in time, back to my roots. Such nostalgia was awakened in me as I created characters that were so like the real people in my own life up there in the northeast of England.
Like many writers, I fell in love with all my characters and they became my family. Ellie and Adam and the rest of the cast of The Iron Master will forever remain fondly in my heart, as will the characters in all my books.
I had been writing, with little success, for as long as I can remember, until three years ago when I had a novella accepted. Since then I have had seven novellas accepted for publication and two ‘proper’ books. The Iron Master was the first ‘proper’ book and will be followed in 2004 by the publication of When Tomorrow Comes – a warm family saga set in the war years of the forties and I hope my readers will love Hildie Thompson as much as I do as she doles out love and kindness to her family and friends while harbouring a lost dream in her own heart.
Well, my dream of becoming a published writer is, I hope, just beginning. I have many more stories in me just bursting to come out and I hope my readers get as much pleasure from reading them as I do writing them.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A wonderful start from June Gadsby, 2 May 2003
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This book set in the North East of England from 1908 until just after the first war, is a great start from June Gadsby. It captures the hardships and deprivation of people working in the Iron industry, the closeness of families who have not much money or hope, and at the same time has a super love story running through it. It's a very readable book, and the dialogue, written in the Geordie accent, is wonderful. That must have been difficult to do even for a native. Hats off to June Gadsby, I'm really impressed and already awaiting her next book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A book to remember, 11 Aug 2004
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An epic novel with all the hallmarks of the classical saga; one family's collision with pit closures and the subsequent upheaval when relocating from Newcastle to Durham to work in an iron foundry. It's also the story of a young woman who wants more from life than just getting by - intelligent Ellie Martin, a coal miner's daughter, values respectability and wealth, but most of all she hankers after true love and romance, ideas which are none too practical in her strained circumstances and which are met with little tolerance by her struggling family.

But "The Iron Master" encompasses far more than that. Ellie sticks to her guns and turns down a convenient offer of marriage, and after the gentle first chapter Ms Gadsby takes the reader on a journey of betrayal, deception, and intrigue. The story has it all: skeletons in the closets aplenty, characters who are either wicked or self-serving or sexually obsessed, a setting depicting a gruelling and degrading level of poverty, pain and guilt walking hand in hand with kindness and honour.

A heart-rending story from beginning to end, beautifully crafted, and completely enthralling.

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