Product Description
Living at home with her mother, aunt, and grandmother, Evelyn is still haunted by the death of her younger brother James in the First World War. She is also determined to make a career for herself as one of the first female lawyers. So when the doorbell rings late one night and a woman appears, claiming to have mothered James's child, her world is turned upside down. Evelyn distrusts Meredith at first, but also finds that this new arrival challenges her work-obsessed lifestyle. So far her legal career has not set the world alight. But then two cases arise that make Evelyn realise perhaps she can make a difference. The first concerns a woman called Leah Marchant whose children have been taken away from her simply because she is poor. The second, Stephen Wheeler, has been charged with murdering his own wife. It is clear that Wheeler is innocent but he won't talk. In the meantime, Meredith makes an earth-shattering accusation about James - and Evelyn falls in love with a man engaged to be married. With the Wheeler case coming to a head, and her heart in limbo, Evelyn takes matters into her own hands...

Meeting up with some friends for Sunday lunch at The Bell in Aston Clinton, and we're taking a few Bookcrossing books along with us.

Caught at the meet up today at Aston Clinton. Looks intriguing and about a period I'm really interested in. (Lovely cover too!)

Set in the early 20s, a fascinating time when everthing was changing but also when the world was still experiencing the terrible consequences of the First World War. I really liked this novel and the themes it explores, of loss and grief and the trauma of war, but also of the hope that children bring and the way women's lives are being transformed in new and exciting ways. I like the character of Evelyn, intelligent and ambitious, but struggling with her emotions and her self confidence as she tries to make her way in the totally male dominated, deeply tradition bound, often patronising and hostile, world of The Law.

Well written and researched with a real feeling for the period, this is an interesting piece of social history with great characters plus romance, mystery and intrigue. I enjoyed the way the different threads of the story became interlinked and that the ending left room for a little speculation.

I've not read anything else by this author but am keen to now.

Taking to 'not quite a bookcrossing meet' in Oxford on Saturday

won this in the bookcrossing game at the Kings Arms meet on Saturday - I find period between the two world wars an intriguing one, looking forward to reading this one :)

To be released at the BC meetup today

Caught at Towcester BC meeting

Picked up at the Unconvention. Thank you for sharing!

Sorting through my groaning bookcases, I came across this travelling book having something of a snooze - although it may well have travelled in a house move - or two!

My plan for 2023 is to read as many Bookcrossing books as possible, and to get them moving again for others to enjoy too, so this hopefully will not be the last you hear from this book!

Left in the Phonebox library in the village.