Essie - Tapa blanda

New Years Day, 1913 and Essie sets out for Walsall and a job as kitchen maid. Just thirteen years old, she leaves her impoverished family and the Midlands mining village that has been her home without a backward glance. For Essie is escaping - fleeing, at last, her drunken and perverted father. But her traumatic childhood has left deep scars. It will be many years - years of both heartbreak and joy, hardship and prosperity - before Essie can finally come to terms with her own past and accept with open arms the love she is offered... Also by Flora Pearce from Futura: NO WORK TODAY