THE HAYBURN FAMILY

THE HAYBURN FAMILY
GUY McCRONE
CLASSIC FICTION
MAY 2003
1 873631 58 8
256 pp.
6.99
198 x 129 mm, PAPERBACK


See also The Wax Fruit Trilogy and Aunt Bel, to which this is a sequel.

The year is 1900, and as the old century ends and Queen Victorias reign draws to a close, the past is catching up with Henry and Phoebe Hayburn. Dark secrets continue to haunt them, as they begin to plan for the future of the family business the Clydeside shipyard that has been the foundation of the familys prosperity throughout the Victorian era. Henry Hayburn wants his son, Robin, to follow in his footsteps and take over the running of the shopyard but Robin is a determined young man who has other ideas. He wants to be a writer, and the conflicting ambitions of father and son seem destined to end in tragedy...

The fifth in Guy McCrones classic series of Glasgow novels, The Hayburn Family is the dramatic conclusion to the epic story which began with the Wax Fruit trilogy.

McCrone knows just about everything a man can know about the Glasgow of those days Glasgow Evening Citizen