TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bradshaw, Rita,
TI  - A woman of courage
SN  - 9781035000319
U1  - 823.914 23
PY  - 2024///
PB  - Pan Macmillan, 
KW  - Young women
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Dysfunctional families
KW  - Criminals
KW  - Runaway wives
KW  - Mothers and sons
KW  - Man-woman relationships
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Victoria, 1837-1901
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - fast
N2  - "It's 1890, and Josie Gray is an innocent and beautiful fifteen-year old when Adam McGuigan, the youngest son of a dangerous and influential crime family spots her singing in a Sunderland public house. Adam is handsome and charismatic, sweeping Josie off her feet with his beguiling lies and promises. He charms her into marrying him on her sixteenth birthday, but on her wedding night the fairy tale ends. Josie finds herself trapped in a living nightmare and there's no one to help her. Events spiral out of control, and when her life is put in danger she escapes with her baby son. Fleeing to a different country, Josie fights to make a good life for her child and then love beckons again. But the McGuigan family's power is far reaching. When the day of reckoning comes, can Josie survive it?"--Publisher
ER  -