A Ruthless Need
  • Published:
    Mar-1995
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    Print / eBook / Audio
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    304
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Even in the heat of battle, Geoff Fulton would always carry with him the memory of the night he was on leave, when his timely intervention rescued fourteen-year-old Lizzie Gillespie from the oldest of perils for a young girl. The year was 1937 and the place a rural enclave of County Durham.

Seeing in Lizzie a girl of spirit, Geoff concluded that she might, with care and training, solve his problem and benefit herself. So, despite a token resistance from Lizzie's slatternly stepmother, it was agreed that the girl should become a companion helper to his increasingly handicapped mother.

But, in 1943, when Geoff returned wounded from the desert war, it was to find a Lizzie he hardly recognized--mature and highly attractive. For her part, she could see that he was embittered by his experiences at war, for he now displayed a ruthless streak far removed from the caring person she had previously known.

A Ruthless Need tells with power and perception the story of a girl who, given the chance of a new life, burgeons into a talented woman of ideals and expectations, and who comes to realise that she no longer need the support of a man she once regarded as her saviour. It is a novel that will be hugely enjoyed by Catherine Cookson's millions of readers throughout the world.
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EDITIONS
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    • Jun-1996
    • Random House (UK)
    • Mass Market Paperback
    • ISBN: 0552140392
    • ISBN13: 9780552140393
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    • Oct-1995
    • Corgi (UK)
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0593028546
    • ISBN13: 9780593028544
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    • Mar-2011
    • Peach Publishing
    • eBook (Kindle)
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    • Sep-1995
    • Soundings Audio Books
    • Audio Cassette
    • ISBN: 1860420184
    • ISBN13: 9781860420184
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    • Dec-2002
    • Soundings Audio Books
    • Audio CD
    • ISBN: 1842834541
    • ISBN13: 9781842834541
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    • Dec-2001
    • Center Point
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 158547066X
    • ISBN13: 9781585470662
    • Large Print
    • Library Binding



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