Hindle Wakes
Author: first_name: Stanley
last_name: Houghton
Language: English
Year: 1912

Alan Jeffcote, son of Nat Hawthorn, Hindle's richest factory owner, meets Fanny Hawthorn, daughter of Nat's 'slasher' and oldest friend, in Blackpool and the two go off for what they believe to be secret fling in Llandudno. But after the death of Fanny's friend, Mary, in a pleasure boat accident at Blackpool the secret is revealed and the the two families are thrown into disarray.<br><br>The leading light of the so-called Manchester School of realist dramatists, Stanley Houghton wrote Hindle Wak