The Iron Facade - Large Print Author:Catherine Cookson Prudence Dudley is a woman with everything looks, brains, a successful career as a novelist. But the emotional disaster which followed her sad, rejected childhood and her failed marriage had almost caused a breakdown. So, in the company of her dear, protective Aunt Maggie, she flees to a rented cottage in the Lake District. — David McVeigh, the o... more »wner of the cottage and the decaying Lowtherbeck estate, at first tries to drive them away with his arrogance and hostility. Then, unwittingly, Prudence is drawn into the mysteries of his turbulent family life - and the realisation that he has as many secrets in his past as she has in hers...« less