Family drama
1900s
Charlotte
Brookes and her sister Hannah, recently losing their last living relative, and
disliking their “guardian” Vernon McBride, have taken to the roads. How they
survived a year, without either money or a home, is left to the readers’
imagination and the tale begins with them stumbling upon a kind, childless
couple who take them in on the understanding they will work in their shop.
Older sisters
caring for younger siblings may have been common in days gone by, and I have
read other stories by Brear with this theme; they are always well written.
Details are authentic, the characters well portrayed and the author deserves
her following. The setting for this tale is immediately prior to the First
World War, and there is much scope for men to be heroes and women to take on
tasks they would ordinarily never have considered.
To divulge more
of the plot would be unfair. Suffice it to say that apart from an occasional
Americanism “gotten” slipping into the writing, the style is good and
appropriate for the time.
© Jen Black
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