Previously published as A Family Affair
WHAT DOES A GOOD MAN DO WHEN A LAW STOPS HIM MARRYING THE WOMAN HE LOVES?
This is the dilemma facing John Truesdale, the Registrar of Births, Marriages and Deaths in Atherley, a grimy industrial town in Lancashire where coal is mined and cotton is spun.
The story of his forbidden love and longing simmers in the background as he tries to be a good father to his family. With the death of Queen Victoria the stern rules on female behaviour are relaxed and three girls are keen to take advantage of the new opportunities for work and study the twentieth century offers them.
Except Dorothea. She follows a very different path.
Genre: Sagas
Used availability for Jane Stubbs's His Wife's Sister