For A House Made Of Stone. Gina's Story

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Viking/Penquin
Publisher Place: Camberwell
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: Reprint

Description: 279 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: This is the moving, true story of a remarkable young womans battle to lift herself and her family out of poverty and despair and to make a worthwhile life for herself. All Gina French ever wanted was to help support her family and repay her struggling parents by building them a house of stone. Ginas dream takes her from her birthplace in the Philippine mountains, via the bars and dance halls of Manila, to the jetset worlds of New York and Brunei. Ginas life changes dramatically and forever when she falls in love with a wealthy Englishman who persuades her to marry him and bear his son. All at once she finds herself stranded in the cold and hostile world of the north of England, trapped with a man who seems more and more determined to hurt her and her child. Driven close to madness by her husbands violent attacks, Gina stabs him. Suddenly she finds herself facing a murder charge in a foreign land . . . This is Ginas own frank story - it is an inspiring story of love, loss, survival and, in the end, hope.

ISBN: 9780670029365