To Helen Clegg's family, their daughter's ambition to train as an architect is just a silly fancy, and Helen herself knows that, with the Depression not far behind them, she should be grateful for her job at the carpet factory in her home town of Halifax. But still she longs to know more about the exciting buildings she sees in magazines, although her personal love has always been for the traditional styles and materials she has grown up with in her native West Riding. Then an unexpected offer of a scholarship means that Helen is able to study at a local college of art and soon a whole new world is opening up before her. And with this new world comes fellow student Alex Stone, the son of Halifax's most prominent architect, a born rebel who is set to shape Helen's life ...
"To Helen Clegg's family, their daughter's ambition to train as an architect is just a silly fancy, and Helen herself knows that, with the Depression not far behind them, she should be grateful for her job at the carpet factory in her home town of Halifax. But still she longs to know more about the exciting buildings she sees in magazines, although her personal love has always been for the traditional styles and materials she has grown up with in her native West Riding. Then an unexpected offer of a scholarship means that Helen is able to study at a local college of art and soon a whole new world is opening up before her. And with this new world comes fellow student Alex Stone, the son of Halifax's most prominent architect, a born rebel who is set to shape Helen's life ..."@en
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