Product Description

In the first years of the twentieth century, the slums of Poor House Lane are no place to bring up a child, and Kate O'Connor struggles to make ends meet when her beloved husband is killed, leaving her a single mother with a baby to support on the meagre hand-outs she gleans from charity. So when the childless Tysons, owners of Kendal's shoe factory, offer to adopt her son, Callum, and employ Kate as his nanny, she seizes the chance to ensure he has a better life.

To be so close to her son, yet no longer be his mother, is bittersweet. But Kate is not prepared for the jealousy the new arrangement provokes in Eliot Tyson’s brother, Charles, who sees Callum as a direct threat to his inheritance. But then events take an unexpected turn. Kate finds herself back in Poor House Lane facing a heartrending decision – how to find her missing son.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #203127 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-24
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Newcastle Evening Chronicle
Praise for Freda Lightfoot:
'Freda Lightfoot's talent for creating believable characters makes this a page-turning read.'

Review
Praise for Freda Lightfoot: 'Freda Lightfoot's talent for creating believable characters makes this a page-turning read.' (Newcastle Evening Chronicle )

'Charming and exciting . . . A lovely story by an author with extraordinary feeling in her writing.' (Bangor Chronicle )

'Real people and real dramas are her mainstays' (Westmorland Gazette )

'The writer clearly knows her Manchester well, especially the canals, warehouses, factories and humble shops and dwellings of the poor. Her historical research has been painstaking and the sense of the period is very real' (Historical Novel Society )

Bangor Chronicle
'Charming and exciting . . . A lovely story by an author with extraordinary feeling in her writing.'

Customer Reviews

The Girl From Poor House Lane
Judging by my personal reading tastes, I've always found Freda Lightfoot's books hit and miss. I either can't get intrested in them or I can't turn the pages fast enough. This book was the latter.
A brilliant read for someone like myself who enjoys a good saga. As I have read so many I sometimes find the plots predictable but in this book i gasped and my jaw dropped at least twice!
Without giving too much away the book ends with the villan vowing revenge... leaving it well open for a follow up book.
Highly recommended.