Dorothy has grown up in the years following the First World War, and during her bleak childhood she has always known that her family is different. Her implacable mother seems incapable of loving her, and the cruelty and deprivation she endures are watched silently by her browbeaten father.
Only her childhood friend, Steve, gives her any affection and, on the eve of the Second World War, she escapes from home and marries him.
But wartime takes from her both Steve and the baby they longed for. Rather than return home she escapes for the second time — to work at Burbank Hall, where the wounded are being treated.
Here she meets Andrew, a young doctor who has also known pain and deprivation, and as she blossoms once again, she discovers the answers to the secrets from her past.
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Ruth Hamilton is the bestselling author of A Whisper to the Living, With Love From Ma Maguire, Nest of Sorrows, Billy London's Girls, Spinning Jenny, The September Starlings, A Crooked Mile, Paradise Lane, The Bells of Scotland Road, The Dream Sellers, The Corner House, Miss Honoria West, Mulligan's Yard, Saturday's Child, Matthew and Son, Chandler's Green and The Bell House. She has become one of the north-west of England's most popular writers. Ruth Hamilton was born in Bolton, which is the setting for many of her novels, and has spent most of her life in Lancashire. She now lives in Liverpool.
"Powerfully atmospheric" Lancashire Evening Post "Compelling reading" Nottingham Evening Post
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