Kingston Kate

by Elizabeth Waite

Kate's father owns a boatyard and they have a comfortable, loving family life until her father gets drunk, something which is increasingly frequent - then he gets violent. Kate and her mother survive it together until the father attacks Kate one night when she is almost eighteen. Her mother stabs him in the back with a kitchen knife, kills him, is tried and hung for murder. Kate's loving grandmother and friends help her through her trauma. The only thing she doesn't have is a man - until she meets Bernard Pinfold (Toby). They walk out together and have a night of love just before he goes off on a two-year contract in South Africa. He doesn't write and Kate is saddened by his let down. However, she gets on with her life, converting her grandmother's house into a home for handicapped children, caring for a motherless child, Joshua, whom she comes to love and almost brings up as her own. Almost two years later she receives red roses and a letter from Toby wondering whether she is free, or found someone else. He is due to return and still loves her, but doesn't want to upset her if she's got another life. Of course, she forgives him...

Genres: Roman

448 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1999

Reviews

[Belinda Vlasbaard · Rating 4 out of 5]

3,5 stars - English Ebook

Review follows later.

[Teresa Pittman]

Local books for me

Another good read found this without by chance ,a lady said do you like reading books about places you I said yes and she gave me Elizabeth white I've read quite a few they all get good

[Barbra · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is the first book by this author that I have read and I really enjoyed it. I will definately be reading more by her.

Back Cover Blurb:
To catch a glimpse of her red hair, sparkling eyes and shapely figure was to think Kate Kearsley the eighteen year old daughter of a successful boatyard owner, a very lucky young woman indeed. But she was anything but lucky.
Her brother had tragically drowned sixteen years previously and her father had turned to drink and violence, leading to the death of both her parents.
What is to become of her? How does she recover from such terrible loss? With the love and sympathy of friends and relatives like Mary Kennedy, Charles Collier and her Aunt Dolly, and a motherless child called Joshua, she somehow finds a way....