If There Be Thorns
Publisher: Fontana/Collins
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Great Britain
Language: eng
Format: mass market paperback
Number of pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780006163701
Copyright date: 1981
First sentence: Whenever Dad didn't drive me home from school, a yellow school bus would let me off at an isolated spot where I would recover my bike from the nearest ravine, hidden there each morning before I stepped onto the bus.
Description: The family were now living as far as possible from the haunting scenes of their past, and in the sunshine and joy of their new life, with the children and their shared love, were trying to forget the anguish of their loveless inheritance.

But the hidden secrets of the past rose up to trouble them.

Their parents' black heritage began to haunt them once more.

The rage and hatred which they fett returned to torment and twist the next generation.

It was only if they could forgive their mother and forego their final revenge, that peace could at last return to the family.
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