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Not that I hold that against Eileen at all; I think the only way to handle Cookson is to start with a nice one, because if you open with The Tide of Life the entire thing sort of becomes a non-starter.When Agnes, shouldering the crumbling family fortunes alone, finds in Robert a source not only of commonsense but of love, the two of them defy convention. They stand in front of that tractor business the entire time, and it runs the ENTIRE TIME, so that halfway through their breakup, as he’s shouting over the motor that he can’t be tied down, not by her or ANYONE, both of them are slowly engulfed in a thin grey film. Millie lives with her sister, Agnes, brother Stanley (who is at Oxford) and her mother and father at Foreshaw Park, which is the Thorman family home. He is frequently at odds with his God-fearing Uncle John and then there's cousin Carrie, a teenage timebomb just waiting to explode. Agnes' and Millie's three older brothers are looking for ways to continue living the lives their titles indicate, even at times if it is only a facade.

Enter the BBC version of Catherine Cookson’s The Moth, starring Jack Davenport, Juliet Aubrey, and Justine Waddell. Robert gets the job, and tries to settle in to being subservient in a household, when his carpentry skills have meant, in the past, that he can make his own terms.Carrie is late back one evening after going to the fair, even though she was forbidden to go by her father. Hatred and duty and their effect on an English family in 1960 are the themes of Cookson's 14th novel (after The Maltese Angel). A chance encounter with Millie, the strange daughter of the castle, brings him into the orbit of the crumbling Thormans. Siblings that require looking-after: Millie, Sarah’s younger sister, who has Peculiar Yet Winsome on speed dial. No joke, this kiss goes on for ages, and there’s inexplicable Lord of the Dance flutes, and a spinning camera, and the whole thing.