The Broken Gate

by Eileen Ramsay

Dumfries, Scotland in 1910. Life for Kate Kennedy, the old miner's daughter, was never easy, but for her had it tougher than most. She is just 13 when her mother dies and there after Kate takes over the running of the household and acts as a mother to her younger siblings. When Kate grows up, she decides to marry Charlie. But sometimes it seemed as if all her great plans and secret dreams had been in vain...

378 pages, Paperback

First published April 7, 1994

About the author

Eileen Ainsworth was born on 16 December 1940 in the South-West of Scotland, where she brought up. She wrote since she was seven, but she decided become a teacher. After graduating she went to teach in the USA for a year - and stayed 18 years. She married Ian Ramsay, a Scottish mathematics scientist working on the first moon shots. They had two chidren. They returned to their native Scotland.

Her writing for children and adults has won several awards, including the Constable and Pitlochry trophies from the Scottish Association of Writers and the Romantic Novelists' Association's Elizabeth Goudge Award. In 2004 she was short listed for the Romantic Novel of the Year award.

Eileen is an honorary member of the Angus Writers Circle, was vice-president of the Scottish Association of Writers, a member of the Society of Authors and was on the committee of the Scottish branch for about six years and for four was the Secretary, and she was elected the twenty-seventh Chairman (2015-2017) of the Romantic Novelists' Association.