The Runaway

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<p><b>Will he ever find what he's looking for?</b></p><p>Oliver Wainwright is still a boy when he first sets eyes on the fair, delicate Florence the aristocratic granddaughter of Sir Philip Oldfield. And, determined never to be a servant or follow in his fathers footsteps as a quarry worker on the Oldfield estate, he runs away to Middlefield, that very day.</p><p>Slowly but surely, he sets about becoming a man of property and a cotton industry king. He works single-mindedly to achieve his ambition until he meets Rosie, a married mill hand who distracts him with her dark, warm beauty. Has Oliver finally found what he really wanted all along?</p><p><b>Set against a background of the Lancashire/Cheshire cotton industry,<i>The Runaway</i>is a magnificent saga of a young mans rise to power, his passion and poverty, feuds and triumphs and the two very different women who shape his life.</b></p>

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<p>Audrey Reimann was brought up in Macclesfield where she was educated at the Macclesfield Grammar School for Girls. She and her husband now live in East Lothian.</p><p>Audrey has three children and is the proud grandmother of ten, and has been variously a bank clerk, a nurse, a teacher, and a foster mother to twenty-five. But, above all, Audrey is a storyteller. On Anne Robinson's BBC Two programme 'My Life in Books', comedian Sarah Millican named Audrey's novel<i>Flora's War</i>as one of her favourite books, saying: 'This is a book that will make you laugh and make you cry.'</p>

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