At Sixes And Sevens

by Rosie Harris

Two sisters. One man. One moment that will change all their lives forever. Living in the shadow of their domineering father, Rhianon and Sabrina Webster plan two very different futures—until one fateful day when Pryce Pritchard, the man Rhianon loves, gets into a fight, throwing all their worlds into turmoil.

Genres: Fiction

416 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1911

About the author

Rosie Harris was born in Cardiff and for several years worked in the City Hall. Her husband, Ken, was from Wallasey and after they married they lived on Merseyside for many years.
She has been writing since the 1950’s. In the 1960’s she ran her own agency, Regional Feature Service, writing articles for most of the provincial newspapers.
During the 70’s she became Editorial Controller for a non-fiction house.
In the 1980’s, after publishing a number of non-fiction titles she turned to fiction and during the 1980/90’s had a number of short stories published as well as five books by Sphere under the name Marion Harris.
Since 2002 she has had some 20 books published by Heinemann/Arrow. She sets her books in the 20’s because she has a great admiration for the women who were wives and mothers in those days. They had none of the current time-saving equipment – no washing machines or vacuum cleaners, no instant electric fires or cookers, and certainly no Internet. Their days were long and arduous and often they had to manage on very little money.
In 2005 she was one of the judges when Arrow and Asda collaborated in a major national competition to find the next big saga writer.
Her most recent titles are Love Changes Everything and The Quality of Love. The next, Whispers of Love, will be published in March 2010.

Reviews

[Chrissie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Love reading books set in Wales - my birthplace. A lovely book, very enjoyable.

[Bronwyn Rykiert · Rating 3 out of 5]

I find that always when reading a book by Rosie Harris I seem to be berating her main character all the way through the book and this frustates me. Rosie's main woman characters are usually weak minded and easily walked over and sooo naive, Rhiannan was no different.

Rhiannan and her younger sister Sabrina lost their mother when they were young and it was left to Rhiannan to be mother to Sabrina as well as cook and cleaner to the household. Her father was a bigot, typical of so many religious people (in my findings anyway), not very charitable, fair or forgiving. He spoilt Sabrina who in turn was a spoiled brat who wanted her own way at all costs. When Rhinnan met Price Pritchard at night school Sabrina wanted him and at the start of this book she is egging him and her boyfriend, Howell, into a fist fight which in turn leaves Howell dead and Price in prison. Then of course Price betrayed Rhiannan with Sabrina which left Sabrina pregnant. Sabrina runs away from home (which I thought was really dumb, this girl had no skills whatsoever, so I don't know how she though she would manage, but by some miracle she did. When she tossed out of one house she finds another and it is there Rhiannan finds her broke and pregnant. Of course selfish Sabrina does not want the child so after a tug of war Rhiannan gets to keep the child and after a big upset at the house they had been living in Rhiannan takes the boy Davern home to live with her father while Sabrina stays in town to party.

So much of the book is so far fetched - how Sabrina lands on her feet all the time. How much Rhiannan tries to back up her sister as she is not all that bad. Sabrina is a bitch why could Rhiannan not stand up to her and she tends to beleive every lie that Sabrina tells her.

I guess there must be something going for the stories because I do always managed to finish them, mind you I am glad when I get there. This book was no different.

[Sue · Rating 3 out of 5]

The beginning of this book was slow, and I began to skim read, at one point I almost gave up. But then it moved on a bit and gave way to a decent tale. However the character of Sabrina annoyed me intensely, from start to finish!

[Bernie Morris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Didn't really get into first chapter, probably because I READ TOO MANY BOOKS and the last one was still buzzing around in my head. However, by end of chapter 2 I was hooked. Rhianon's sister, Sabrina, is a totally spoiled, manipulative, horrible bitch and suitably hateful, and everything that subsequently happens is entirely her fault. Enough said.

[Daisy Mawdsley-hall · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lovely read fantastic author easy reading