Book description
The Chandlers had been making candles in Bolton for five hundred
years, and had given their name to the village of Chandlers Green. The
dynasty, now in decline and ruled by Richard Chandler, is reduced to
an unhappy household and a few tenanted properties.
But Richard continues to behave as though he were lord of the manor.
Jean, his wife, is terrified of him; his aunt, Anna Chandler, has
moved out of the house and is writing a history of candlemaking; his
grown-up children despise him, but fear for their mother if they were
to leave home. And now Richard's arch-enemy, Alf Martindale, is
planning to move into his village, and Richard knows that the past is
catching up with him fast. A crisis forces him to leave his manor for
a while, and he has no way of knowing that Jean is arming herself
against his return. The past and the present are about to come
together in a way that can only end in tragedy...
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 and
Chandler's Green. 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.
