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Aug 3, 2011 · The Girl, Hannah, is savagely beaten by Anne when she discovers her stealing her jewellery. Matthew uses this beating as an excuse to take all of Anne’s power within the household away, and to go out on the knob again. Anne is a leeedle bitter about this as well, and never speaks to Hannah again.
The girl is The Girl, Hannah Boyle. The man on the horse is Ned, who is supposed to be a hardscrabble farmer type. In reality, he looks like one of the bridge-and-tunnel guys wandering 27th street in their velvet short sleeve mock turtlenecks every Saturday.
Jan 1, 2001 · Catherine Cookson. Her name was Hannah Boyle, but to the people of the village she would always be “The Girl” – Matthew Thornton’s bastard. Savagely treated by Matthew’s wife, Anne, she fled for protection to the devil-may-care horse-dealer, Ned Ridley, who had earlier befriended her.
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Dec 21, 2015 · Summary. Her name was Hannah Boyle, but to the people of the village she would always be “The Girl” – Matthew Thornton’s bastard. Savagely treated by Matthew’s wife, Anne, she fled for protection to the devil-may-care horse-dealer, Ned Ridley, who had earlier befriended her.
Oct 6, 2020 · Catherine Cookson’s The Girl. The Girl by Catherine Cookson. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. This was a difficult book for me to read, given the central character is presented as the illegitimate offspring of a middle class, relatively well-off family man.
The Glass Virgin is about a young girl, raised as gentility, who finds out she’s actually the daughter of a whore and therefore socially untenable. Distraught, she leaves the house with estate groom (and total hottie) Manuel in tow.
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Illegitimate Hannah Boyle is simply called “The Girl” by her jealous stepmother, who forces her into a disastrous marriage. But Hannah is willing to fight to regain her freedom and the man she truly loves. TV adaptation of the novel by Catherine Cookson. 148m/C VHS, DVD .
