Book description
Kate Murray's father had never forgiven her for being born a girl.
Her elder sister, Judith, he had accepted - after all, she was a
pretty child and the next one would be a boy. But when Kate arrived,
scrawny, red-haired, under-weight, he was told there would be no more
children, no son and heir, and from that moment his hatred for his
younger child was born.
Kate, growing up in a world of constant rejection, seeing the way
her Lancashire 'respectable poor' family tried to hide the cracks of a
bad and violent marriage, determined to find a life - a world - where
she was loved, was successful - where people were proud of her.
It took several years, several astounding and unusual developments,
and a great deal of courage before Kate became the woman she wanted to
be - successful, warm, forgiving, and able to give the love she had so
lacked in her own life.
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.
