Book description
When Laura Page returns to the remote Holderness village of Welwick,
it is to try and discover the mystery of her mother Susannah's early
life. Now a prosperous businesswoman in Hull, Susannah never speaks of
her childhood, when she was brought up with the terrible stigma of
bastardy - of being nobody's child.
Susannah's own mother, Mary-Ellen, born into poverty and living in a
labourer's cottage, had the misfortune to fall in love with a local
landowner's son. She was his one and only great love, but was unable
to acknowledge their child and had to watch her growing up in
hardship. As the years passed and Laura began to be curious about her
mother's past, so too did she become aware of the mystery about her
own father.
Valerie Wood was born in Yorkshire and now lives in a village near
the east coast. She is the author of The Hungry Tide, winner of
the Catherine Cookson Prize for Fiction, Annie, Children of the
Tide, The Romany Girl, Emily, Going Home, Rosa's Island, The
Doorstep Girls, Far From Home, The Kitchen Maid and The
Songbird, all available in Corgi paperback.
Find out more about Valerie Wood's novels by visiting her website on
www. valeriewood. co. uk
