The golden straw / [Book] /
Catherine Cookson.
- London : Corgi, 1994.
- 607 pages : ; 18 cm.
Spanning the period from the 1880s to World War II, this wonderful historical novel tells the story of Emily Ratcliffe, whose fateful choices as a young woman exact a terrible toll not only on her own life, but on the lives of those dearest to her.