It is 1910. Grace Ellis’ family is struggling in rural poverty in a small town in Lancashire. Then one evening her mother Dora leaves her incapacitated husband, Arthur, leaving them to fend for themselves. The family disintegrates and Grace is reduced to penury.
Grace has inherited her mother’s strength and determination. She goes out to work and looks after her father and manages to start her own cosmetic business.
She meets Daniel, heir to the Goodman fortune, and they both fall deeply in love. His controlling mother does everything in her power to break them up.
Tragedy follows her, and Grace must call upon every ounce of strength in her redoubtable character to keep her child and to triumph over scheming adversaries to rebuild her life once more.
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‘A good read!’
Betty Burton
‘Well-observed characters, convincing plot with an unexpected sting, and lovely descriptive writing’
Elizabeth Elgin
From the bestselling author of 'Green Baize Road' and 'Midnight's Smiling' comes a powerful tale of survival and spirit.
Grace Ellis is the envy of her schoolmates. While they are struggling in rural poverty in Lancashire, her father owns a shop and her mother strives for respectability. Grace is raised to believe that she's something special. But after her mother's ruthless action, the family disintegrates and Grace is reduced to the penury her parents worked so desperately to escape.
Somebody is watching over her, however. An anonymous benefactor arranges to fund Grace's education, enabling her to build her own cosmetics empire through sheer determination and talent. But Grace must call upon every ounce of strength in her redoubtable character to triumph over scheming adversaries and opportunistic lovers to find a man to mat h her own courage.
'Lovely descriptive writing'
ELIZABETH ELGIN
'Good news for saga fans'
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