The Turnbulls
By: by Taylor Caldwell.
Publisher: Aeonian Press
Published: 1975
Place of publication: Leyden, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 517
Genres: love,hatred,family, violence
First sentence: On a wet and grey morning (December 15, 1850, in fact) a young an of eighteen turned to Russell Square Street.
Description: The story of   John Turnbull and his wife Lillybelle Botts set to struggle from the hideous cycle of hatred and love. John is an 18-year-old Englishman who think of nothing but his love for his beautiful yet cruel cousin Eugenia McNeill.  However, after an unforgivable mistake his father sent him to America with his wife Lillybelle. There John's pride, Lillybelle's passion and the rage to love mixed so it did not only destroy those they hate, but also those they love. With the help of Mr. Wilkins and Mrs. Beardsley the couple live a life of fortune and contentment until Eugenia and her husband Andrew Bollister came and ruined everything. Now John's hatred grew and gave him three daughters. The youngest (Adelaide) is the one who take his vengeance and  hate not until Anthony, Andrew and Eugenia's son came and fall in love to Adelaide. Together, Adelaide and Anthony built a Romeo and Juliet love story that the tragedy is heart warming and tear jerking. And against John's and Andrew's will, they married. After the struggle and enduring Lillybelle's passion break through and made John realized how wrong he was and realized that he doesn't love  Eugenia anymore and  Lillybelle is the one he  really love.
Notes: Reprint of the ed. published by Scribner, New York.