TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cookson, Catherine,
TI  - A ruthless need
SN  - 0593028546
AV  - PR6053.O525 R87 1995
U1  - 823/.914 21
PY  - 1995///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Bantam Press
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Domestic fiction
N2  - Even in the heat of battle, Geoff Fulton would always carry with him the memory of the night he was on leave, when his timely intervention rescued fourteen year-old Lizzie Gillespie from the oldest of perils for a young girl. The year was 1937 and the place a rural enclave of County Durham. Seeing in Lizzie a girl of spirit, Geoff concluded that she might, with care and training, solve his problem and benefit herself. So, despite a token resistance from Lizzie's slatternly stepmother, it was agreed that the girl should become a companion/helper to his increasingly handicapped mother. But, in 1943, when Geoff returned wounded from the desert war, it was to find a Lizzie he hardly recognised--mature and highly attractive. For her part, she could see that he was embittered by his experiences at war, for he now displayed a ruthless streak far removed from the caring person she had previously known
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