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Cherrybrook Rose

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A gripping tale of love and self-sacrifice set on wild Dartmoor

The year is 1875, when life high up on Dartmoor is harsh and unforgiving. Beautiful, vivacious and compassionate, Rose Maddiford could have any husband she chooses, but she is devoted to only one man, her father, manager of the gunpowder mills at Cherrybrook. When tragedy strikes, it seems that despite Rose's determined efforts, there is only one way to hold the family together. But it is a solution that requires the greatest sacrifice from Rose. Like a lamb to slaughter, she finds herself trapped in an impossible situation. 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? Perhaps, though, the answer lies in the very place Rose has not looked, and there is hope for her after all.

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      June 1, 2008
      Crosse delivers readers to ableak company town in 1875, justa few miles fromtheCherrybrook gunpowder mills, "slap in the middle of the great wilderness of Dartmoor and even lonelier." There live Henry Maddiford, mill manager, and Rose, the grown daughter hes raised and indulged since her mothers death in childbirth. At fourteen hundred feet above sea level and surrounded by desolate moor, life isa struggle in this areabuffeted by biting cold and snow in the winters punctuated by sunless, rainy summers. Rose devours books by Austen and Dickens and gallops (astride, if you please!) over the lonelymoors on her devilish black horse, Gospel. Her encounter with an anguished prisonersets the stage fora mill explosion and reversal of fortune that forces her to leave the freedom of the moor and its "boundless sense of infinity" for the townand marriage to a man who strives to contain her wild spirit. With its strong sense of place and headstrong heroine, Crosses absorbing historical is a readers and filmmakers dream.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2008, American Library Association.)

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