Harriet's whirlwind romance and impetuous marriage to Godfrey disintegrates when Godfrey's former girlfriend, Amelia, arrives from Italy in 1873. Her husband is divorcing her and, destitute and hysterical, she has come in search of Godfrey, unaware that he has married Harriet. Amelia is determined to break up their marriage and makes no secret of the fact. When Godfrey leaves Harriet for Amelia, Harriet soon finds herself the object of other men's affections - possibilities which are cruelly blighted by the discovery that she is carrying Godfrey's child. Despite the difficulties of her private life, Harriet has a charitable but passionate interest in the local workhouse. After all, she can relate to Daisy Pritty, who gives birth but is having to take drastic measures to satisfy her former lover, Digger. The tragic parallels between the two women's lives do not end when Digger abandons her following a violent attack and Daisy's life hangs in the balance...
- ISBN10 0727874187
- ISBN13 9780727874184
- Publish Date 25 March 2005 (first published 28 May 2004)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 16 February 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Severn House Large Print Books
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 384
- Language English