18th century
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Author_Guy McCrone
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classic fiction
cultural heritage
drama
eighteenth century
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family saga
Glasgow
Guy McCrone
historical drama
historical fiction
period drama
saga
saga fiction
Scotland
Scottish historical fiction
Victorian era
Victorian fiction
Product details
- ISBN 9781873631393
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 02 Dec 2002
- Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Aunt Bel is the sequel to The Wax Fruit Trilogy, the story of the Moorhouse family and their rise from humble beginnings in rural Ayrshire to a position of wealth and influence in Victorian Glasgow. As the Victorian era draws to a close, Bel Moorhouse seems to have everything she ever wanted - prosperity, security, an ideal husband and, above all, a prominent place in respectable Glasgow society. Years of ruthless social ambition and an insatiable desire to succeed have seen Bel and her family rise to heights they could hardly have dreamed of when they first came to Glasgow. But Bel's well-ordered world is not as secure as it seems. Beneath the facade of polite convention and cosy ritual, trouble is brewing, bringing with it the spectre of disgrace and the ruin of everything she holds most dear.
Guy McCrone was born in 1898 in Birkenhead. He was educated at Glasgow Academy and Penbroke College, Cambridge. He is also the author of numerous other novels, including Aunt Bell (1949), The Hayburn Family (1952), and An Independent Young Man (1961). He died in 1977.
