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Due South
It’s time to take life in your own hands…
When Hannah Galloway sends her first love, Hector Aitken, off on a train south for him to pursue his journalism career, she thinks of nothing but when she will see him again.
Desperate to find normality in her life, she throws herself into her own career.
Gazette editor and sports writer, Alistair “Ally” Callie, takes Hannah under his wing and tries to bring her out of her misery.
Soon, his feelings for her develop and, despite knowing she is in in love with Hector, he proposes.
Hannah is torn: she enjoys Ally’s company but she promised to stay true to Hector.
But, on a fateful visit to London to see Hector, she finds he has made his own way forward… without her.
Suddenly Hector’s offer doesn’t look so bad.
Sheila, Hannah’s sister, had already announced her wedding plans, and nothing will stop her from marrying Duncan.
Maggie Galloway, their mother, widowed for five years, knows that it won’t be long until Hannah leaves too. How will she cope?
Hannah and Ally are soon wed, but when Ally is offered the chance to move further forward in his career, he takes it.
It doesn’t take too long for Hannah to convince her mother, Maggie, that London would be a better place for them all.
Down South was not that bad a place for them all to live.
But once they hit the big smoke, life takes a course of it’s own, and Hannah finds herself in a job that puts her right in Hector’s path again.
Will Ally’s increasing self-interest push her into the arms of her old lover? Can Ally stay true when she feels her own dreams are being lost? What about Hector’s new love interest, the alluring Monica?
After a certain point, Hannah decides, it’s time to take life into your own hands.
When Hannah Galloway sends her first love, Hector Aitken, off on a train south for him to pursue his journalism career, she thinks of nothing but when she will see him again.
Desperate to find normality in her life, she throws herself into her own career.
Gazette editor and sports writer, Alistair “Ally” Callie, takes Hannah under his wing and tries to bring her out of her misery.
Soon, his feelings for her develop and, despite knowing she is in in love with Hector, he proposes.
Hannah is torn: she enjoys Ally’s company but she promised to stay true to Hector.
But, on a fateful visit to London to see Hector, she finds he has made his own way forward… without her.
Suddenly Hector’s offer doesn’t look so bad.
Sheila, Hannah’s sister, had already announced her wedding plans, and nothing will stop her from marrying Duncan.
Maggie Galloway, their mother, widowed for five years, knows that it won’t be long until Hannah leaves too. How will she cope?
Hannah and Ally are soon wed, but when Ally is offered the chance to move further forward in his career, he takes it.
It doesn’t take too long for Hannah to convince her mother, Maggie, that London would be a better place for them all.
Down South was not that bad a place for them all to live.
But once they hit the big smoke, life takes a course of it’s own, and Hannah finds herself in a job that puts her right in Hector’s path again.
Will Ally’s increasing self-interest push her into the arms of her old lover? Can Ally stay true when she feels her own dreams are being lost? What about Hector’s new love interest, the alluring Monica?
After a certain point, Hannah decides, it’s time to take life into your own hands.
356 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 1, 1982
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February 18, 2018
Enjoyable look at London newspaper world
This enjoyable book covers the loves, lives and careers of the Scottish Mafia of the London newspaper world from the early 1950s to the early 1990s. It portrays women's struggles to be independent and respected for themselves , their contributions and their own creativity and achievements. The male characters are not neglected, as their struggles in a rapidly changing and challenging work and social environment are well-developed. Not a fun book but one which can provide insight into a generation that came of age soon after the Second World, ie Baby Boomers, in the UK.
This enjoyable book covers the loves, lives and careers of the Scottish Mafia of the London newspaper world from the early 1950s to the early 1990s. It portrays women's struggles to be independent and respected for themselves , their contributions and their own creativity and achievements. The male characters are not neglected, as their struggles in a rapidly changing and challenging work and social environment are well-developed. Not a fun book but one which can provide insight into a generation that came of age soon after the Second World, ie Baby Boomers, in the UK.
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