North and South

When her father leaves the Church Margaret Hale is uprooted from hercomfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England.Initially repu... » 

When her father leaves the Church Margaret Hale is uprooted from hercomfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the North of England.Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrialtown of Milton Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of localmill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. In North andSouth Gaskell skilfully fused individual feeling with social concern and inMargaret Hale has created one of the most original heroines of Victorianliterature.As men and women workers and masters come into violent conflict it seems opposites can never meet. But do John and Margarets power struggles hide deeper feelings? And when it seems Margaret has lost everything can she find the one thing she never expected? «