Love is all
Emma Sparrow. By Marie Joseph. Hutchinson. 235 pp. $22.95.
Emma Sparrow, aged 20. works at the machines of Delta Dresses, the main factory in her Lancashire cotton town, and looks after her father, sister and younger brothers in a small cramped bouse in the working class area of the town. However, her indomitable spirit, her beauty and her pride bring her to the notice of Simon Martin, son of the owner of Delta Dresses and the new company director. Can love triumph over their great differences of class and social background?
Marie Joseph writes 235 pages of sentimental and melodramatic twaddle to answer this question in the affirmative. Melodrama is indeed the keynote of this novel. It is in direct descent from the penny dreadful novels which told of the poor little mill girl and the factory owner. — Margaret Quigley.
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Press, 29 May 1982, Page 16
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