Off the rails
By: Beryl Kingston
Publisher: Robert Hale
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780719807466; 9780719807442; 9781306020442; 9780709090953
Subjects: Fiction; Railroads; History; FICTION; General; Romance; Historical
Description: Born in 1800, George Hudson rose from farmer's son to the rich and powerful Lord Mayor of Yorkfriend to royalty and owner of half of the railways in the kingdom. But Hudson was driven by greed as well as ambition and dark secret lurked within his pasta youthful indiscretion ... and an illegitimate child. That child, Milly, has been brought up, quietly and lovingly, by her mother Jane, who dreams of taking revenge on her careless begetter. By a quirk of fate, both Jane and Milly work in the Hudson household. Will Jane's revenge be sweet? Or will lifeand unexpected loveget in the way?
Table of contents: title: Cover; Copyright; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; 28; 29