Showing The Fifteen Streets by Catherine Cookson

Life on the Fifteen Streets was tough – a continual struggle for survival. Many families gave up and descended into a dismal state of grinding poverty. Born into an ever-expanding family, John O’Brien grew up in abject poverty, his world circumscribed by the hardships and the stigma of life on the Fifteen Streets. Labouring on the city’s docks and trying to keep his loved ones safe from the drunken wrath of his father and brother, this is the only way of life he knows. Then John O’Brien meets his sister’s teacher.

Beautiful and elegant, Mary Llewellyn belongs to that other world of wealth and privilege. Mary is also one of those rare women who wants to help the less fortunate in the hope that education will enable them to escape their desolate lives. What begins as a casual conversation over tea blossoms into a rare love, but fate steps in when John is accused of fathering the child of a local girl. Mary is forbidden by her parents to see John and the couple begins to believe that the gulf between them cannot be bridged and will forever come between their love. But their deep and abiding passion wins through and transcends this gulf of the Fifteen Streets.

The Fifteen Streets is a captivating and compelling novel and a rare treat for lovers of romantic fiction.