Maudie — Karen Mason

Book One of The Line of Passion trilogy. Julia Newbury is the government's brightest star, and when the Prime Minister starts falling in the polls, he decides to hand the reigns over to the beautiful young woman who, with her handsome husband and gorgeous kids, seems to have it all. But just before the announcement is made, Julia is told that the affair she has been having with a Polish builder is about to be exposed - jeopardising everything she has achieved. Devastated, Julia starts thinking about the 'curse' that has blighted her family - three generations of women whose passionate natures have caused scandal and heartbreak.

Firstly there was her grandmother Maudie, a poor girl from Liverpool who married into the aristocracy and shocked 1930's society by having an affair with an Irish poet, and risked losing everything she possessed, including the daughter she adored….