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Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Sagas, Historical fiction
A gripping sage of long-lost family, power and passion
Powerful, hard-hearted Leonard Mears is a man with a dark secret; an illegitimate daughter that he forced his sister to bring up.
The girl is now a young woman who, unbeknown to him, is determined to find the father that abandoned her.
James Peterson, a gifted young man, runs Mears' factory with more success than Leonard's own sons. He lives for the day he can have his own business and make his fortune. Only then will he be able to declare his love for beautiful Isabel Mears who he means to release from the gilded cage her father has created. But when the lonely, lovely Sally comes in to his life, his heart and dreams are turned upside down.
Praise for The Gilded Cage: A gripping saga of long-lost family, power and passion
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Cox's talent as a storyteller never let you escape - Daily Mail
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Driven and passionate - The Sunday Times
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One of the country's best-loved storytellers - Prima
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Josephine Cox's novels satisfy the romantic in us all yet still provide a life-is-never-easy, gritty read. This is a heartstring-puller - Next Magazine
Josephine Cox
Josephine Cox was born in a cotton-mill house in Blackburn, one of ten children. At the age of sixteen, Josephine met and married her husband Ken, and had two sons. When the boys started school, she decided to go to college and eventually gained a place at Cambridge University. She was unable to take this up as it would have meant living away from home, but she went into teaching - and started to write her first full-length novel. Her strong, gritty stories are taken from the tapestry of life.
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