Love and marriage / Margaret Thornton.

By: Thornton, Margaret, 1934- [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Marlborough, Wiltshire : Severn House, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First world editionDescription: 233 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780727886613 (hardback)Subject(s): 1900-1999 | Domestic fiction | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction | Man-woman relationships -- England -- Fiction | Marriage -- Fiction | Families -- Fiction | Female friendship -- Fiction | Friendship | Married people | Social conditions | Jealousy -- Fiction | Friendship -- Fiction | Married people -- Fiction | Great Britain | Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Domestic fiction. | Domestic fiction | Domestic fiction | Domestic fiction. | Fiction. | Romance fiction. | Romance fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Domestic fiction. DDC classification: 823.92 LOC classification: PR6070.H69277 | L68 2016Summary: 1957. Newly-wed Val Walker is looking forward to starting a family. Her best friend, the previously flighty Cissie, is expecting her second child, content to settle down to full-time motherhood. Their mutual friend Janice, having just got engaged to boyfriend Paul, is looking forward to wedded bliss. But life does not always turn out as one would expect. Val doesn't find it as easy as she'd expected to fall pregnant with her longed-for first baby. When Cissie's husband Walter starts taking an interest in a new female colleague, jealousy rears its ugly head. Janice is consumed with guilt at leaving her widowed father and young brother behind in Blackpool to start a new life in Yorkshire. Are the three friends' ́marriages strong enough to survive these unexpected obstacles?
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1957. Newly-wed Val Walker is looking forward to starting a family. Her best friend, the previously flighty Cissie, is expecting her second child, content to settle down to full-time motherhood. Their mutual friend Janice, having just got engaged to boyfriend Paul, is looking forward to wedded bliss.

But life does not always turn out as one would expect. Val doesn't find it as easy as she'd expected to fall pregnant with her longed-for first baby. When Cissie's husband Walter starts taking an interest in a new female colleague, jealousy rears its ugly head. Janice is consumed with guilt at leaving her widowed father and young brother behind in Blackpool to start a new life in Yorkshire. Are the three friends' ́marriages strong enough to survive these unexpected obstacles?

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