The Antimacassar City [electronic resource]
McCrone, Guy2025
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'A sumptuous, superbly immersive epic: witty, with gutsy, beautifully drawn characters' - Adele Parks MBE The first novel in Guy McCrone's beloved Wax Fruit Trilogy, chronicling the rise - and trials - of the Moorhouse family in Victorian Glasgow. Glasgow: the second city of the Empire. A booming metropolis where fortunes are made, reputations forged, and ambition knows no bounds. Into this world steps Arthur Moorhouse, a determined young man who has risen from modest beginnings in rural Ayrshire to establish a thriving merchant business and a name for his family. But success comes at a cost. As the Moorhouses climb the social ladder, they face fierce rivalries, internal tensions, and the ever-watchful eyes of Glasgow's elite. When tragedy strikes, Arthur and his spirited new wife, Bel, take in his orphaned halfsister, Phoebe - a bold and determined young woman whose arrival will alter the family's destiny. Set against the backdrop of a city in transformation, Antimacassar City is a sweeping tale of ambition, loyalty, and the price of progress. As the Moorhouses rise, so too do the stakes - because the higher you climb, the harder the fall. 'Wax Fruit recaptures the atmosphere of the period most effectively' - The Herald 'Very fine indeed' - Glasgow Evening Citizen
Main title:
The Antimacassar City [electronic resource] / Guy McCrone
Author:
McCrone, Guy, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Black & White Publishing, 2025
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Series:
The Wax Fruit Trilogy
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Guy McCrone was born in 1898 in Birkenhead. He was educated at Glasgow Academy and Penbroke College, Cambridge. He is also the author of numerous other novels, including Aunt Bell (1949), The Hayburn Family (1952), and An Independent Young Man (1961). He died in 1977.
ISBN:
9781785308376
Language:
English
BRN:
4307977
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