# The Good Provider

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- Book: [The Good Provider](https://www.bookquiver.com/jessica-stirling/the-good-provider) ([The Good Provider.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/jessica-stirling/the-good-provider.md))
- Authors: [Jessica Stirling](https://www.bookquiver.com/jessica-stirling)
- Publisher: hodder_paperbacks
- ISBN: 978-03-4076-633-0
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2000-06-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Kirsty, an 'orphan brat' escapes from the remote Ayrshire farm where she was a servant and runs away with her sweetheart, Craig Nelson. With little money and still strangers to each other, they travel to Glasgow and set up in a 'marriage' that is never made legal. Ambitious and impatient to get on, Craig falls in with a gang of sly and vicious thieves and soon sinks into a life of drink and crime. Meanwhile, Kirsty has met the handsome and charming David Lockhart, a medical missionary soon to return to China. But she is bound by loyalty to Craig, a less than ideal husband who can only bring her hardship and heartbreak . . .