Home to the High Fells — Elizabeth Gill

When Rosalind West leaves her native Durham for a job in London with the Doxbridge Motor Company she is determined to build a new life. London in 1958 is tantalizingly glamorous - especially when she meets aristocratic rally driver Freddie Harlington, son of a once-wealthy Northumberland landowner. Against the better judgment of Rosalind's boss and old friend, Jack Neville, Freddie and Rosalind fall in love, but Freddie's family have plans for him which do not include marrying a Durham miner's daughter. Rosalind turns to Jack, and finds herself torn between two men, both with strong passions and fierce ambition...