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Featuring Hamilton

The Hamilton trilogy follows Maisie, a socially isolated woman whose conversations with an imaginary horse help her endure humiliation, loneliness and the demands of ordinary life. Hamilton begins as a private refuge, but the relationship also gives Maisie enough confidence to challenge the people who dismiss or exploit her.

Across the three novels, marriage, bereavement and changing family responsibilities test the survival of that inner world. The sequence is less a conventional historical saga than a compassionate study of imagination, resilience and the uncertain boundary between eccentricity and emotional self-preservation.

Reading order

Books in this series (3 books)

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1. Hamilton

Catherine Cookson

4.4(552)

Maisie doesn’t understand why her mother can’t love her, but she knows that her life is hard and deeply unhappy. When her stepfather George, the only person she trusts, leaves, Maisie has no protector until she begins to escape. She could never be quite sure when…

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2. Goodbye Hamilton

Catherine Cookson

4.3(354)

After years trapped in an unhappy marriage, Maisie has found both freedom and unexpected success as an author. Her first book centres on Hamilton, the imaginary horse who became a source of comfort and advice during the most difficult years of her life. Maisie remarries and…

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3. Harold

Catherine Cookson

4.4(423)

After the death of her second husband, Nardy, Maisie is trying to build a life that no longer depends on Hamilton, the imaginary horse who once helped her endure an unhappy first marriage. Comfort comes instead from Harold, a cheerful young London boy whose presence gives…