The year of the virgins, a novel, Catherine Cookson
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The year of the virgins, a novel, Catherine Cookson
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The year of the virgins
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30913363
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Catherine Cookson
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a novel
Summary
It had never been the best of marriages and over recent years it had become effectively a marriage in name and outward appearance only. Yet, in the autumn of 1960, Winifred and Daniel Coulson presented an acceptable fa?ade to the outside world, for Daniel had prospered sufficiently to allow them to live at Wearcill House, a mansion situated in the most favoured outskirt of the Tyneside town of Fellburn. Of their children, it was Donald on whom Winifred doted to the point of obsession, and now he was to be married. Winifred?s prime concern was whether Donald was entering wedlock with an unbesmirched purity of body and spirit, for amidst the strange workings of her mind, much earlier conceptions of morality and the teachings of the Church held sway. There was something potentially explosive just below the surface of life at Wearcill House, but when that explosion came it was totally unforeseeable and devastating, plunging the Coulsons into an excoriating series of crises out of which would emerge both good and evil, as well as the true significance of the year of the virgins
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