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The Gleaming Cascade of diamonds was made to adorn the women who committed into one of England's most visible families - symbolic of the riches and privilege relished by the Firths of Yorkshire. Instead the wonderful necklace would come to burden the women who used it, becoming for these people an emblem of bondage and inherited tragedy. Pamela Haines' enthralling saga instructs of three decades whose lives and destinies are linked through blood and inheritance of this priceless heirloom. You can find Lily Greene, celebrity of the London level, who in 1898 weds the enigmatic sir Robert Firth, and then for whom the precious stone waterfall involves symbolize a state of degradation and humiliation she never imagined possible. You can find Lily's girl, Sylvia, who is married for this fantastic legacy and leads a life of love and torment. And lastly, there exists Willow Gilmartin, who in the spring of 1945 takes away the precious stone waterfall from its foundation of ivory silk - and at last claims a heritage that has for such a long time eluded others. Sweeping from a great Yorkshire house to the Riviera and across European countries - from the opulence of Edwardian London to the trenches of France in World War I and back again to Great britain during one of her most dramatic time - this breathtaking novel interweaves the lives of men who fight on the battlefields of two world wars and women who carry forward the traditions that identified them. Pamela Haines was born in Yorkshire, like so lots of the personas in her books. Knaresborough, Leeds, and Harrogate have all performed a component in her family backdrop. She was educated at a convent in the Midlands, and then read English at Newnham College or university, Cambridge. As a kid she published nonstop, but around the age of 17 life became too busy, and she didn't write again until her past due 30s, by which time she was committed to a doctor, and had five children. In 1971 she triumphed in the Spectator New Writing Prize with a brief story, and finally completed her first novel, Tea at Gunter's, in 1973. Critically acclaimed, it was the joint champion of the Yorkshire Arts Association Honor for Young Freelance writers. It was implemented in 1976 by A Sort of War, referred to as 'a booklet to re-read and treasure' in the Daily Telegraph, and the even more lucrative Men on White Horses implemented in 1978.

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