Winner of the Historical Novel Prize. Mid-victorian Edinburgh: two different worlds in one city. Lizzie Crearie lives amidst the poverty of the Old Town, fighting a dailybattle against poverty and disease. In the prosperous New Town, Helen Lambert le...
By the author of Australia Lane. It is 1860 and the Bruton's live a respectable but dull life in Warrington. When Rose elopes with her lover, her father cuts her off without a penny, leaving her impoverished and later pregnant and widowed. She must n...