LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME

Born in a cotton-mill house in Blackburn, author Josephine Cox is one of ten children. Here she tells a passionate and moving tale of a young woman's fight for happiness. Beautiful Eva Bereton has two close friends - Patsy whom she looks upon as a sister, and Bill, once her childhood sweetheart, now married and living far away. So when a tragic accident turns Eva's world upside down, Patsy is the only one she can turn to. A hated figure from the past comes to reclaim the farm and business that Eva had always believed were her parents'. Not even Bill, still in love with Eva, can stop her being thrown out on the streets. Together with Patsy, Eva starts a new life far away. Luckily they find work and lodgings wherever they settle, but when Eva arrives in Blackburn, her past mistakes rise up to haunt her. Even when threatened from all sides she will never accept that her chances of happiness have been destroyed. Determined and optimistic, she fights on to change her life for the better. A driven and passionate novel from the popular writer. 312pp, paperback.