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this book from start to finish hard to put down This was my first Val Wood book, Good story of the coming together ofpeople from different backgrounds, Based in, the story follows an Innkeepers family and especially the daughter, Held my attention throughout. Fabulous writing style enabled me to picture it all as the story went along, excellent read xx Enjoyed the book, Was slow and almost gave up but reviews were encouraging, Glad I finished. Decent read, not exceptionally good, I enjoyed Bella's resourcefulness, frustrated by Nell and the mother, Mostly I really enjoyed
how the relationship between Bella and her lazy brother improved and matured, It was so unlike a Cookson book, where bad people stay bad and grow vindictive, You really saw Joe grow up, I like seeing how their inn developed, This is the first Val Wood book I've read but I was very impressed, I'm a big fan of family/regional sagas but one of the things I've noticed is that they can be quite depressing, This one is different. Although there are the inevitable setbacks, there's a positive aspect throughout with all the characters rising above setbacks to surge ahead, Bella is the eponymous daughter of the title, her father keeping an inn in Holderness, East Yorkshire, Although her one desire is to be a schoolteacher, she is forced, through circumstances, to help out at the inn, After her father's death, the family move to the centre of Hull where they take on a derelict public house, Throughout the book, we also follow the fortunes of a young landowner's son who is training to be a doctor, A splendid novel of ordinary people who rise above misfortune I enjoyed this evocation of the life of innkeeping families in Yorkshire in the nineteenth century, Through the person of Bella, whose father is an inn tenant, we see the rural life as farm labourers are fed and put up during harvest season, travellers are warmed and refreshed, and local people come for a quiet pint and game of dominoes.
Innkeeping is profitable enough if the landlord can just refrain from drinking his stock,
With the early death of Bella's father, she, her brothers, little sister and pregnant mother, are left to run the business as best they can.
Then her mother becomes homesick for Hull, the port town where she was brought up, and decides to move the family here to take on a pub instead, thus giving us a good contrast.
We also meet a young man James, second son from the manor family, who trains to become a doctor with the aim of helping the people around him, and becomes caught up in the streams of wounded from the Crimean war.
Medicine is changing as new treatments and ideas are proven theories about cholera, wound infection and ether for women in labour have arisen,
This tale is less a romance than a depiction of the times, We see perhaps too easy a path for Bella's family, as the pub owners don't cavil at dealing with women, they don't need to incur debt and Bella, oddly, is not beset by admirers nor considered a loose woman because she works in an inn.
The lesson that hard work, clean living and treating others with respect will help you prosper is excellently conveyed and it's good to see a social history that is not about squalor and abusive parents.
Other books I've read by Val Wood include The Hungry Tide and The Doorstep Girls and I find her a very good writer, She says that an inn was owned by some of her forebears but has been demolished to make way for a road, Holderness,.
For reliable, thirteenyearold Bella, life isnt turning out quite as shed hoped, She lives at the Woodman Inn an ancient hostelry run by her family in the Yorkshire countryside surrounded by two older brothers who never pull their weight and a flighty younger sister.
When Bella learns not only that her father is seriously ill, but that her mother is expecting a fifth child, her dreams of leaving home to become a schoolteacher are quickly dashed.
Times are hard, and when their father dies Bella also has to take on the role of mother to her baby brother, Her days are brightened by the occasional visit from Jamie Lucan the eighteenyearold son of a wealthy landowner in a neighbouring coastal village, Also grieving the loss of a parent, Jamie has more in common with Bella than she thinks,
When her mother announces out of the blue that she wants to move the family to Hull, Bella is forced to leave the only home she has ever known.
They arrive to find that the public house they are now committed to buying is rundown and dilapidated, Could things get any worse Or could this move turn out to be a blessing in disguise for Bella Really good read like reading this book a heartwarming story well written.
Extremely inspirational book Really love the books by Val Wood and this one was no exception, The stories are usually set in areas local to me and are brilliantly written, Recommended. This was my first Val Wood book amp I will be reading more, A very enjoyable read. Nicely written story of a young girl, Bella, whose life and dreams are forced to change when her father dies suddenly and her mother makes the decision to move the family from Holderness to Hull.
Bella has to find a way for her own talents to shine and there is also the tantalising figure of Jamie Lucan, a landowner's son who becomes a doctor, hovering in the background, offering the chance of an unexpected romance.
Lovely tale, the author's level of research intoth century Hull and Holderness is particularly good, Val Wood really makes sure that her stories flow right to the end of the book, Tale of a hard working family in queen Victorias era, The author had descendants who ran inns so introduced the running of them into the story, Bella is the main character and she has to sacrifice her dream of becoming a teacher in order to keep the family afloat, It also shows from her siblings how different they are from each other and what paths in life they want to take, Another good book by Val Wood The second time I've read this novel, such a wonderful tale, full of family truths, lies, drama and, better than anything, hope and trust.
A wonderful ending. A definite staple in my book cupboard, Overall, Wood does an excellent job of balancing broad depictions of the Empire with intimate domestic scenes in an engaging way, Through the buildup of seesaw moments and endearing characterisation, I took an avid interest in what the outcome would be, No matter the satting, The Innkeepers Daughter relevant to, in which the fortunes of Britain as a joint ScottishEnglishWelsh concept are equally up in the air as during the time of Empire.
Read more at sitelink wordpress. com/ A lovely story : sitelink Valerie WoodSince winning the Catherine Cookson Prize for Fiction for her first novel, The Hungry Tide, Val Wood has become one of the most popular authors in the UK.
Born in the mining town of Castleford, Val came to East Yorkshire as a child and has lived in Hull and rural Holderness where many of her novels are set.
She now lives in the market town of Beverley, When she is not writing, Val is busy promoting libraries and supporting many charities, Find out about Val Woods novels by visiting her website: sitelink www, valeriewood. co. uk sitelink Valerie WoodSince winning the Catherine Cookson Prize for Fiction for her first novel, The Hungry Tide, Val Wood has become one of the most popular authors in the UK.
Born in the mining town of Castleford, Val came to East Yorkshire as a child and has lived in Hull and rural Holderness where many of her novels are set.
She now lives in the market town of Beverley, When she is not writing, Val is busy promoting libraries and supporting many charities, Find out about Val Wood's novels by visiting her website: sitelink www, valeriewood. co. uk sitelink.