Review
For Women of Iron: 'She writes with authority, skill and confidence ... a real old-style Victorian drama ... [with] a mix and balance of wickedness and purity' Elizabeth Gill, author of The Secret ** 'A gritty and realistic tale ... The characters are so richly drawn and authentic that they pull the reader along in the story effortlessly. A very satisfying read' Anne Bennett, author of To Have and to Hold ** 'A powerful and page-turning saga' Dee Williams, author of Sunshine After Rain **
Product Description
Catherine King's third gritty Yorkshire novel, in the mould of Meg Hutchinson and Barbara Taylor Bradford
Without a Mother's Love follows the misfortunes of two women, as they endeavour to escape the lives forced upon them in a harsh nineteenth-century Yorkshire-Olivia Copley is a feral child who has been starved of affection. But it is Miss Trent, her new governess, who has known real hunger and hardship.