A gritty and heartrending drama set in 19th-century Cornwall. Orphan Sophie and her friend Hannah are welcomed into the Penvarrow family but tensions rise and family secrets are revealed.
Newly orphaned twenty-year-old Sophie sets out for governess work in London to avoid destitution, but the posthumous revelation of Sophie's mother's secret and doomed personal history complicates Sophie's progress into this life. For fans of Susan Lewis and Dilly Court.
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The Lost Soldier.
