Maggie Rowan Author:Catherine Cookson Had she sacrificed love on the altar of ambition? Born and raised in poverty, Maggie Rowan vowed that she would escape her shabby surroundings - and that the child she passionately wanted would never know the hardship that was Maggie's birthright. Relentlessly she drove her easygoing husband up the ladder of success, while she ruthlessly pursued... more » her own career. And when at last she had a son, she poured all her dammed-up emotions in trying to fit him into the mold of her dreams. It was only when Maggie reached out for the love that she so desperately needed that she realized how much she had sacrificed for ambition - and how late it was to reclaim the love she had come so perilously close to losing...« less