A A Fishburn
ASIN: B01DFOWORO
Publisher: unknown
Pages: 474
This story from the Antipodes will engage your emotions: empathy and affection for some of its characters, antipathy for others. Real people, real relationships, real struggles and the great fortitude seen in the younger ones will give the reader hours of interest and a real desire to learn more about them and of what happens to them. But first to how it began…Ross Gordon, a young Scotsman, travels halfway around the world to escape his overbearing father and make a life for himself in a new country. In Newcastle, Australia, he rescues the equally audacious farm girl Daphne Cowper and they fall in love. With a ring secure on Daphne's finger they soon start a family.Times are tough though, and they struggle to make ends meet as they raise four proud-minded girls. But Ross, although a good man, is a hard disciplinarian and a little too fond of the drink. Daphne bears the brunt of his ire ...