Irene Carrier Knihy

James VI and I is a new title in the Cambridge Topics in History series. A wide range of sources accompanied by diverse and challenging questions aid student understanding of the period.

Chrissie has worked her way up from the backstreets to own The Railway Hotel and to give her children the opportunities she never had. But, in the summer of 1923, her husband's shipyard is staring ruin in the face. Closure would mean poverty and near starvation for the hundreds of workers. Chrissie determines to hold her family together, come what may. But, in spite of her efforts, the winds of war will tear them all apart, and threaten to destroy everything Chrissie holds dear...