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Illingworth House (part one) ISBN: 978 188731 2360 is also published in North America by Spire publishing, 3007 Kingston Road, #14, Toronto, Canada M1M 1P1.
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Chance Child (part 1) is an historical romantic novel set
in the1930s and wartime Britain in the West Riding of Yorkshire
and Prague, covering events leading to the outbreak of war and
the war itself to early 1945. This novel in the Keighworth series
contains strong emotional content and portrays a violent battle
between members of the English class system, between a mill-master
and those under him, as well as their battle against the Nazis.
When the mill-master's son falls deeply in love with a working-class
typist and aims to marry her, his scheming father succeeds in
scotching the marriage, with disastrous results for himself,
his son and the girl he loves. |
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Chance Child (part 2) Distraught from the death in action during the war
of his only child and the end of his grandiose dreams for promoting the
family’s wealth and status, Sir Abe turns to his grandson to replace his
son. But he faces a great problem. John Greenwood was adopted at birth by
his aunt and uncle who hate the Illingworths. Throughout this novel Sir Abe
has to eat humble pie and face up to a world falling apart around him. His
grandson, too, is torn between his working-class roots and the wealthy
sophisticated world of his grandfather. |
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The introductory novel to the Chance Child trilogy, "Illingworth House", starts in 1910 and brings in the main characters in all three novels. The first novel opens with the birth of John Illingworth, the heir to a Yorkshire mill dynasty. His father Sir Abe Illingworth had an arranged and loveless marriage to Rachel, the daughter of another rich mill-master, and John is the result. Sir Abe’s real love is for his mistress and personal secretary, Mary Calow. She supports him loyally before and after his wife dies and throughout the industrial troubles of the period and World War I, in which Sir Abe is badly wounded. The next generation of characters appear in this novel and play greater parts as they grow up and the novel progresses. Simon Grimstone, the solicitor, Harry Clemence, the ambitious and heartless businessman, John Illingworth, the heir to the Illingworth dynasty and wealth, Rosemary Braithwaite, John’s feckless cousin, and Helen Greenwood, the mysterious foundling, all display their various traits as they mature, ready for the parts they play in the next two novels. |
