title: The Marrying Kind
author: Stirling, Jessica
description: Poverty and the Depression in 1930s have hit Glasgow hard, but Burnside family have been luckier than most. Alison Burnside, studying medicine thanks to the financial support of her teacher and boyfriend, Jim Abbott. But Jim is now in a sanatorium, and handsome fellow student Declan Slater beckons. She becomes entangled with Declan who has an irresistible charm and will stop at nothing to get the girl he hungers for.