The Loves Of Catrin

This omnibus edition of Iris's first two novels - "The Copper Cloud" and "Return to Tip Row" - tells the story of Catrin Owen. Iris Gower has also written the "Sweyn's Eye" sextet.

Fiddler's Ferry

Siona Llewelyn is the ruggedly handsome ferryman, with an eye for the ladies, whose days are spent rowing passengers across the River Swan. One day he hauls a young girl trying to commit suicide out of the river and so starts this tale of Siona's family - the loves and lives of his seven blue-eyed sons - in Sweyn's Eye, a mining town in post World War One Wales. The gossiping locals are unimpressed that Siona won't leave his wife be, making her pregnant with their eighth child. After the weary Emily gives birth to a longed-for little girl, tragedy after tragedy hits the family and each of the brothers struggle to cope in their own, vastly different, ways.

Morgan’s Woman

Catherine Preece - young, courageous, lonely, and desperate for love - is trying to run a South Wales hill-farm single-handed, and to support the husband she never loved, now crippled and embittered after the Great War. Into this explosive situation comes an attractive man who has lost his fiancee.

Spinners' Wharf

Rhian Gray left her home in Sweyn's Eye to make a life for herself in Yorkshire, where she learnt the skills of spinning and weaving. She also learnt to love Mansel Jack, a charismatic and ambitious mill-owner who wanted to make her his mistress. When Rhian returned to Sweyn's Eye, it was to a town torn apart by anxiety and uncertainty, by the vicissitudes of the Great War. Amidst the anguish and dedication of the women who were left behind, Rhian must decide where her own future lies - in respectable marriage to Heath Jenkins, her former sweetheart - or in the arms of Mansel Jack. 

Proud Mary

Mary Jenkins had dragged herself up from humble beginnings - first to be overseer in the Canal Street laundry, then to run her own market stall in Sweyn's Eye. But constantly fate - and the Sutton brothers - knocked her down again. Dean Sutton was prepared to set her up in a shop of her own - but only at his price - while Brandon Sutton threatened to destroy her with a love neither of them could control. But Mary - proud Mary - was a fighter, determined to win whatever the odds, however great the sacrifice.