Clover by Michael Taylor
Clover

Michael's fourth stunning novel.

 

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SYNOPSIS

In his fourth novel, Michael Taylor tells the story of Clover Beckitt, her family and their struggles to turn their struggling home brew pub, the Jolly Collier, into a thriving business.

Clover is surprised when her mother announces that after fifteen years of widowhood she is about to be married to a younger man. All at once, Clover finds herself with not only a new 'Pop', Jake Tandy, but a pretty new stepsister, Ramona, as well.

Despite her initial fears, all seems settled in the household. Clover is permitted more freedom because of the free rein afforded to her more outgoing stepsister, and new plans for the brewery promise to bring the family some prosperity. When love blossoms with Tom Doubleday, the photographer she met at her mother's wedding, Clover feels that things have turned out just right. Then Jake's younger brother Elijah joins the business, and both Clover and Ramona find their lives changed forever.

Clover is an earthy yet bewitchingly moving love story set in the Black Country, against a backdrop that features the pioneering days of aviation. A wonderful new addition to the compelling Dudley sagas written by the bestselling author of Eve's Daughter, The Love Match and Love Songs.

PUBLISHING DETAIL

Hodder & Stoughton
Available in hardback
from 6th September 2001
£17.99
ISBN 0-340-75133-9

In Coronet paperback from
4th April 2002.
Price £6.99
ISBN 0-340-75134-7

Magna Large Print £18.99
December 2002
ISBN 0 7505 1904 5

EXTRACT

'You don't look comfortable, Clover,' he said and left his camera to walk over to her. He knelt down and adjusted the folds of her dress as it draped over her legs. 'Rest your head on the headrest and raise one arm languidly over your head . . . No, that doesn't seem right . . . I know, pretend you have a new ring on your finger - an engagement ring for instance - and your lover has had to go away. Now you're wistful and pining for him . . . Oh yes that's beautiful. Can you hold that while I . . .'

'Tom, can I not do that? Please? I think it would be a bad omen.'

'A bad omen?'

'Yes, you photographing me looking all heartbroken because my sweetheart has gone away.'

 
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CLOVER - in Hodder & Stoughton hardback
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Michael's fourth novel, CLOVER, was released in hardback by Hodder & Stoughton 6th September 2001. Paperback in Coronet was published early 4th April 2002.

Set against a backdrop of early aviation between 1907 and 1916, this is the story of Clover Beckitt and how radically her life is changed when her widowed mother remarries. Clover finds she has a pretty step-sister and another male relative, both of whom join the family brewing business with surprising consequences.