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Original Title:	The Clouded Hills
ISBN:	0356109674 (ISBN13: 9780356109671)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Barforth #1

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Also published as ‘Verity’.

At sixteen Verity becomes sole heiress to a fortune founded on the wool mills of Yorkshire and realises for the first time that she is no more than a pawn in the games of ambitious men. Obedient to the conventions of the Victorian age, she accepts a marriage of convenience and cloaks her proud spirit in the silks and satins of a society hostess. But for Verity Barforth convention is not enough. When at last she falls in love it is not with her husband, and she becomes the centre of a powerful drama of infidelity, jealousy and revenge, played out against the magnificent landscapes of the Yorkshire moors and the brutal poverty of the mills.

‘A vast exciting tapestry of love, hate and death . . . held me to the end’ James Herriot

‘A touching and ultimately satisfying love story.’ Jilly Cooper

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Title	:	The Clouded Hills (Barforth #1)
Author	:	Brenda Jagger
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 593 pages
Published	:	March 21st 1985 by Macdonald (first published 1980)
Categories	:	Historical. Historical Fiction. Romance. Historical Romance. Fiction

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Brenda Jagger is one of the most underrated historical novelists out there. Her forte is Victorian England; she can put her finger exactly on the class struggle of the newly-rich industrialists, the proud aristocrats, and the desperate poor who are forced to coincide in the rough mill towns of the Industrial Revolution. Even more specifically she can put her finger on the desperate soul-searching of well-to-do Victorian girls who got married, were placed on pedestals, and wondered just what the

Set in the early to mid 1800's this book catalogues the social, economical and political changes in a Yorkshire mill town told through the eyes of Verity, an heiress at the young age of 16 through to adulthood. I was engrossed by this story from beginning to end and was as interested in the changes through the industrial and political revolutions that were taking place as in the more private life of Verity and her family and friends with their ambitions, love, jealousies and infidelities against

Second time of reading and still very enjoyable. Brenda Jagger's writing style is delicate and almost poetic, which provides a strong contrast to the brutal, industrial, Victorian background of its setting. On one level a story of passion and romance but told with equal sensitivity to the grinding poverty, political upheaval and social turmoil of the era.

The first in a series about life in manufacturing England and the rising merchant class.



If it hadn't been for the CollegeStudent's 2009 Challenge, I probably would not have read this book for another 10+ years, when I might have chanced upon it in a small used bookstore in a no-name town and bought it because of the title. Having the same obscure name as the main character was a little disconcerting at first, though finally nice to know the feeling of reading one's own name as a character, and more so when it seemed as though our personalities were the same.Thankfully, that is

I would have rated it so much higher if there had not been so many typos; so many that they distracted from the story line and I had to go back and read many sentences / paragraphs at least twice to understand what was happening.Is this the price we pay for self-publishing? Please please authors get someone to at least proof read your books before publishing them!