Rory's Fortune
Catherine Cookson
Published by Corgi
0-552-52791-2, £2.99 pbk
Although this is archive Cookson - first published in 1972 - like all good stories it's undiminished by time. She really knows how to tug at the heart strings. Set in the mid-nineteenth century, it tells the tale of Rory, poor but honest, who serves his master loyally and is lavishly rewarded. Smuggling exploits add tension and the spice of foreign shores together with a pretty girl are thrown in for good measure. A sound purchase for the Lower School class library.
Reviewed in BfK No. 93 (July 1995) by Val Randall (VR)
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