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Fenwick Houses, Catherine Cookson

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Fenwick Houses

Catherine Cookson

Above the river stood the small terrace of miners, cottages known as Fenwick Houses. Here, during the hazardous years of the Depression, lived Christine Winter, a girl blessed or cursed with that indefinable appeal that drives men to the brink of obsession. Three men dominated her life; her brother Ronnie; Sam, whose devotion was deep and loyal; and Don Dowling, cruel and tormented, who made it his life's ambition to possess her. To Ronnie and Sam she was joined by a thread of harmony, but Don was the needle through which the thread was drawn, and the point was sharp and deadly. Then, one day, a stranger came to the river bank and Christine found herself changed beyond recall