It is 1919 and poverty in the mining village where 16 year old Megan Williams lives, forces her to leave her loving family to work as a kitchen maid in Bristol.Her sly cousin Lizzie is already a parlour maid at Redcliffe House and is determined to make things difficult for Megan. But it was never going to be easy for both upstairs and downstairs it is a maelstrom of feuds and jealousies. Megan finds herself a pawn in the battle for power between the two sons of the house, the lustful Harold Fothergill and Robert, recently returned shell-shocked from Flanders battlefields.But Megan finds friends as well as enemies and in the darkest of times she has to call upon all the courage and determination in her character in order to help her distraught family.But has she lost her own chance of happiness in the process?
- ISBN10 0753183986
- ISBN13 9780753183984
- Publish Date 1 September 2009 (first published 31 October 2008)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 October 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher ISIS Publishing
- Imprint ISIS Large Print Books
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 336
- Language English