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Netherwood
Netherwood | Jane Sanderson
2 posts | 4 read
Eve Williams is about to discover just how the other half really live ... Above stairs: Lord Netherwood keeps his considerable fortune ticking over with the profits from his three coal mines in the vicinity. It's just as well the coal is of the highest quality as the upkeep of Netherwood Hall, his splendid estate on the outskirts of town, doesn't come cheap. And that's not to mention the cost of keeping his wife and daughters in the latest fashions-- and keeping the heir, the charming but feckless Tobias, out of trouble. Below stairs: Eve Williams, is the wife of one of Lord Netherwood's most stalwart employees. When her ordered existence amid the terraced rows of the miners' houses is brought crashing down by the twin arrivals of tragedy and charity, Eve must look to her own self-sufficiency, and talent, to provide for her three young children. And it's then that 'upstairs' and 'downstairs' collide in truly dramatic fashion...
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Caroline2
Netherwood | Jane Sanderson
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Mehso-so

What a shame! The first quarter of this book is sooo good. I loved reading about down trodden Eve and the miners in Edwardian Yorkshire. The writing is superb and gritty; then it took a left turn into Hallmark territory… she‘s an amazing cook, opens her own bakery which does excessively well, she gets lucky break after lucky break, every bloke that meets her loves her yawnnn. And there are way too many characters. Cheese fest!!

squirrelbrain You liked it then?! 🤣 2y
Caroline2 @squirrelbrain 😆 I think I need a break from these mawkish historical fiction books. 🤦‍♀️ I need some grit!!! Where‘s the adversity?? 2y
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Emma_PK
Netherwood | Jane Sanderson
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This has everything I love about Catherine Cookson style books mixed with Downton Abbey. Brilliantly realised and fully real characters with wonderful stories that weave and progress with a good pace. Sanderson's descriptions and prose are wonderfully pleasing to read. Loved it.