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<p>Lucy Piddock meets Arthur Goodrich, solid and reliable, a stonemason and regular churchgoer. As far as her family and friends are concerned, Arthur appears to be the ideal match. But he is prone to one calamity after another - hardly the man of her dreams - and Lucy remains lukewarm. Unbeknownst to Arthur, she holds out for Dickie Dempster, the dashing guard she fancies who works on the newly constructed railway.</p> <p>Prompted by Lucy's rejection and another row with his father, Arthur leaves home in Brierley Hill to seek a new life - and perhaps even a new love - in Bristol, leaving Lucy free to pursue her dream of happiness with Dickie Dempster.</p> <p>Only when tragedy strikes does Lucy begin to understand which way her true feelings lie. By which time it is surely too late . . .</p> <p>'It's about time a man wrote romantic fiction - Michael Taylor does it superbly.' Edwina Currie</p>