North and South

Margaret Hale had a life of roses and southern sunshine - until her father's crisis of conscience drags the family north, to Milton, a city of smoke, strikes, and men who measure everything in profit. Here she meets John Thornton: self-made, unyielding, as brutal and compelling as the mills he commands. They should despise each other. But Gaskell does not write simple love stories. Between the cla...