On a winter's morning in 1915, a baby boy is quietly brought down to a Cotswold gamekeeper's cottage.
Fitzie is the love child of Miriam Lessore, the wayward daughter of the manor house. The father is rumoured to be the Prince of Wales - although one man knows different.
Brought up as their own by Patrick and Martha Davy, the gamekeeper and his wife, the scandalous truth will never be known.
Until Patrick returns from the war, his obedience to the old order gone, and ambitious now to become wealthy and independent. Until Martha joins Miriam in a business venture. Then, as the traditional divisions between squire and servant change, the pressures for the truth to be revealed become even more unbearable...
- ISBN10 0340515937
- ISBN13 9780340515938
- Publish Date 17 May 1990 (first published 1 January 1989)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 4 May 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Coronet Books
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
- Pages 480
- Language English