Feathers in the Fire Author:Catherine Cookson Davie Armstrong watched as his master, Angus McBain, thrashed young Molly Geary for refusing to name the man who had dishonoured her. And yet, not an hour later, Davie saw the two of them alone in the malthouse, and Molly was acting like a whore on market day.
One of Cookson's best - this book makes you think about family dynamics. The boy Amos is disfigured and treated badly from the beginning. No wonder he acts out...