A Handful Of Happiness

A moving romantic saga from the Sunday Times bestselling author

Author: Evelyn Hood

*A woman's struggle to find happiness. Set against a background of poverty and hardship in Clydeside's docklands.

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*A woman's struggle to find happiness. Set against a background of poverty and hardship in Clydeside's docklands.

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A superb saga from Sunday Times bestselling author Evelyn Hood.

'Scotland's Catherine Cookson' Scots Magazine

'Hood is immaculate in her historical detail' Herald

Jenny Gillespie has suffered her share of troubles during the Great War, not least the loss of her fiance, Robert Archer. For although Robert was not killed in action, he is as dead to her as any sweetheart slaughtered in France when he eventually meets another woman. Jenny, meanwhile, is trapped in Clydeside's dockland, unable to leave her mother, who is worn out and heartbroken. Jenny has little choice but to abandon her dream of making a new start in Glasgow and return to her job in the tracing office of Dalkieth's shipyard and the domination of her relentlessly demanding family.

Unexpectedly, Robert Archer returns to Clydeside and becomes Jenny's boss. Single again, penitent and seemingly eager to rekindle his relationship with Jenny, Robert would offer her a way out of the dead end she finds herself in. But Jenny, to her surprise, receives a proposal of marriage from a decent man, one that offers the obvious way to fulfil her duties to her family, escape from their cramped tenement home - and to forget Robert Archer forever. Perhaps only then, Jenny thinks, will she finally be able to reach out and grasp the handful of happiness she longs for...

READERS LOVE EVELYN HOOD...

'Touching, romantic and unforgettable'

'Love all her books'

'Evelyn Hood produces the best of stories'

'I cannot put her books down'

'Love everything Evelyn Hood writes'

About the Author

The Sunday Times bestselling author of 28 published novels, Evelyn Hood had a variety of jobs, including being a journalist and a poultry farmer. She was a full time writer, best known for her family sagas, set mainly in her home town of Paisley (Renfrewshire) and on the Clyde coast, where she also lived. Evelyn also wrote several one-act stage plays, which are regularly performed all over the world, as well as short stories, pantomimes and children's musicals.