Rosie of the River Author:Catherine Cookson Sally Carpenter can't swim & doesn't like boats, so when her husband Fred announces that he has booked them a boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads she's far from enthusiatic.Together with their beloved bull-terrier Bill they set off, only to lurch from one mishap to another. Drowing their sorrows in a local pub one evening they meet Rosie, whos... more »e family is also boating on the Broads. The Carpenters befriend fifteen year old Rosie and when she has a fight with her violent mother it is to Fred and Sally that she runs.
After the holiday, Rosie goes to live with her grandmother, but through the years that floow she relies on Fred and Sally whenever she is in trouble. They help her sort out the many & varied difficulties facing her in her new life, and come to look upon her as the daughter they never had...« less