4 reviews for:

The Moth

Catherine Cookson

3.27 AVERAGE

missemilymorland's review against another edition

1.0

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I didn't enjoy this book at all. I found it slow, poorly written, and lacking in good morals. However, I loved the movie by itvDVD! Usually, it's the other way around: I'll love the book and feel the movie fell short. Not in this case, apparently.

sarkla's review against another edition

3.0

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I chose this book because I recently became aware of the 90s adaptation starring jack davenport (I haven’t watch it yet but I expect to love it). Give me a forbidden love story between an underestimated lady and a misjudged workman any day.

cheries35plus's review against another edition

1.0

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I have been stuck on this one for months, and I am calling it quits on this one. I kept feeling that the storyline does have promise, and yet I just can't force myself to continue this book. I feel it is dragging so slowly that I just don't care enough to continue. I hate to be a quitter, but several months is just too long to keep struggling with it. I desperately need a fast page turner novel to carry me away afar off.

lnatal's review against another edition

3.0

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Set in 1913 Northumbria, England, the story is about Robert Bradley, a strong-willed young worker at a Jarrow shipyard, who arrives home one day to find that his father has died. At the funeral he meets his father's estranged brother, his uncle John Bradley, and his wife Alice who offer Robert a new home and a place in his uncle's carpentry workshop. Robert accepts and after a few weeks at his new home, he is out walking late one night on the grounds of a rundown estate when he meets an ethereal young girl, Millie Thorman, whom the locals call the Moth, and befriends her. All seems to be going well for Robert until his cousin, Carrie, is revealed to be pregnant. Robert is immediately the suspected father, which he adamantly denies, but no one believes him. Even worse Carrie will not say who the real father is because she has always had a crush on Robert, and would rather marry him. Robert refuses to take the responsibility, shocking the townspeople, and leaves his relative's house, finding a place to work on the estate of Millie Thorman's once wealthy, now debt-ridden family. It is there that a mutual attraction develops between Robert and Sarah Thorman, Millie's older sister, but their social differences and Robert's reputation stand in their way.

A movie was made based on this book and it's available at YouTube.



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