String of Pearls : A Trilogy, Paperback by Addicott, Val Baker, Like New Used...

by Val Addicott

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String of Pearls : A Trilogy, Paperback by Addicott, Val Baker, ISBN 1495939227, ISBN-13 9781495939228, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This volume is the complete trilogy of 'A String of Pearls' it tells of the life and loves of Bethan Edwards from her girlhood during World War 1 to her old age in the 1970's. Her first love is her childhood friend Mark who seduces her with the promise of marriage but breaks her heart when he marries for money. Her mother's premature death and earlier extravagant lifestyle leaves Beth penniless apart from a string of pearls given to her when a baby by her paternal grandmother. Maggie her nanny/housekeeper tells her that her routes are in Pembrokeshire so disguising herself as a lad she sets out on foot on a hazardous journey to trace her grandparents and father whom she had always assumed was dead. She meets several memorable characters the most outstanding being 'Mother Lee' a gypsy who tells Bethan that she is pregnant and will have a son she also foretells of a happier future. Reunited with her grand-mother a local wise-woman and herbalist she finds contentment and awaits the birth of her child with trepidation that no-one will ever wish to marry a woman with an illegitimate child. A son is born whom she names James as Mother Lee had her grandmother's friend Major Morgan she meets his grand-son on leave from the front and immediately they fall in love. They keep up a correspondence and on his second leave their love is fulfilled unk

• Publisher: CreateSpace
• Year: 2014
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9781495939228
• Condition: Fine

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