Cherrybrook Rose

By Tania Crosse

Book Overview

A gripping tale of love and self-sacrifice set on wild Dartmoor - 1875. Beautiful and compassionate, Rose Maddiford is devoted to only one man: her father. When tragedy strikes, it seems that the only path forward requires the greatest sacrifice from Rose. Solace comes from the most unlikely source, but what future can there be for two lost souls whose lives have been shattered by the cruel hand of fate?

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0727866281
• ISBN13: 9780727866288
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Severn House
• Length: 231 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

What a letdown

This book kept me reading until the end but the end was such a let down that I almost gave it 2 stars. The story is about an innocent and headstrong young girl, Rose, who lives on the moors with her father and houskeeper. Her idyllic life is ended one day in the gunpowder factory that her father manages. Rose decides to marry for convenience, a wealthy man whose smothering affection for her after the marriage, causes her great anguish. The end of the story is very abrupt since the entire story has revolved around Rose's loathing of her husband. In the last paragraph of the novel, Rose decides with very little provocation that the loathed husband may not be so bad after all since he promises to help an escaped prisoner that Rose has helped. The entire last half of the novel concerns the hatred that Rose feels for the husband and in the last paragraph of the story all is packaged up and closed as if the writer did not know where else to go with the story. I can't recommend this book due to the abrupt and unsatisfactory conclusion.