Unmarried and pregnant with the child of her aristocratic employer, Susannah Trotter, a young governess, marries ambitious curate Sedley Stacey, but her new life is threatened by her feelings for her former lover....
Flora Miles, a promising but struggling novelist in her thirties, plans to make a name for herself by writing the biography of her mother's distant cousin, Claudia Charles, recently lauded in her Times obituary as '...an early feminist, and one of th...
A POWERFUL DEBUT NOVEL. When barrister Annabel Bateman is briefed for the defence of a man who stands accused of committing incest with his fourteen-year-old daughter, she reasons that it is her duty to represent her client to the best of her abilit...