Book description
In the shadow of the Althorpe mills, the Myrtle Street residents
endure cramped and often verminous conditions.
Joe Duffy, a Bolton tradesman, strives to lift his family out of the
'garden' streets. But as more children are born, Joe's wife Tess sinks
deeper into the obsession that will be her undoing. When Tess screams
her belief that the area is cursed, few people heed her ravings. She
is ignored, even as the Myrtle Street tragedies become more frequent
and begin to feature in local gossip.
It is left to Megan, the third Duffy child - the one who felt she
was unworthy and unloved because she had been born a girl - to end the
curse. When she becomes embroiled in a web of deceit, Megan needs all
her strength, talents, and wit in order to survive. But it is her
capacity to give love that ensures her family's stability, the future
of the Althorpe cotton mills, and the safekeeping of the Hall i' the Vale.
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.
