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The Glass Virgin

The Glass Virgin - Catherine Cookson

bookshelves: film-only, published-1969, ipad, under-1000-ratings, spring-2014, tbr-busting-2014

Read from February 09 to March 17, 2014

 



Description: Annabella Lagrange was the only child of a wealthy family, owners of a glass-works in the North-East of England. When Annabella was seven, she thought the world a delightful place to live in, and only occasionally wondered why her parents never took her beyond the gates of their magnificent country estate. When she was ten she decided that the seclusion didn't really matter because when she grew up she would marry her handsome cousin Stephen and never be lonely again.

But when she was eighteen, Annabella learned the circumstances of her birth and her entire world crashed around her...



I have loaded up my ipad with films of books - a great way to travel, believe me! This one stars Nigel Havers and Sylvia Syms. WOOT

Brendan Coyle too.

It is also on youtube

5* Tilly Trotter
TR The Dwelling Place
3.5* The Glass Virgin
3* The Mallen Streak
3* The Fifteen Streets
TR The Girl
5* The Rag Nymph
3* Katie Mulholland
3* The Cinder Path
2* The Mallen Girl
3* The Mallen Litter
4* Feathers in the Fire
3* Colour Blind
3* The Silent Lady
3* The Branded Man
3* Pure as the Lily
4* The Maltese Angel
TR The Fen Tiger
4* The Wingless Bird

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