Duncan Falconer is a former SBS operative turned thriller writer. Romance & Sagas
Synopsis
A powerful saga of the North East that sweeps through Edwardian England and into the turbulent days of the First World War
Emmie Kelso was rescued as a child from a dingy Gateshead tenement and sent to live with the MacRaes, a generous mining family. Now an intelligent and spirited young woman, she volunteers at the notorious Gateshead Settlement - a place where the middle class live and work among the poorest. She is swept off her feet by handsome Tom Curran, a miner, but soon learns that he is brutal and violent. When war breaks out, Tom enlists and, to her surprise, Emmie falls in love with the MacRae's eldest son Rab, a conscientious objector. But dark times are ahead: Rab faces execution for his political beliefs. And the end of the war brings Tom home . . .
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