The Child from Nowhere

As the Great War looms, will the women of Kendal rise to meet the challenge?After giving birth to her daughter, Kate O'Connor finds herself back in Poor House Lane with some momentous decisions to make.
Faced with the opportunity to move out of the slums, she invests her unexpected fortune in a new shoe factory to challenge Eliot Tyson's monopoly over the workforce, regardless of whether or not he is the father of her children.
But nothing is ever that simple, especially when old enemies and estranged relatives return to thwart her every scheme
The second, moving instalment in The Poor House Lane Sagas, The Child From Nowhere is a wartime saga perfect for fans of Val Wood and Katie Flynn

About the author

Sunday Times bestselling author Freda Lightfoot was born in Lancashire. She was a teacher, a bookseller in the Lake District, then a smallholder and began her writing career publishing short stories and articles before finding her vocation as a novelist. She published over fifty novels, mostly sagas and historical fiction. She died in 2025 aged 83, leaving a legacy of books that continue to be enjoyed by thousands of readers.

Product details

• Authors: Freda Lightfoot
• Publisher: Pan macmillan Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.04.2019
• EAN: 9781788633956
• ISBN: 978-1-78863-395-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Poor House Lane Sagas
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Sagas, Historical romance, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Sagas, Historical fiction, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, Cumbria, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, c 1914 to c 1918 (including WW1), Cumbria & Lake District, c 1914 to c 1918 (World War One period), HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War I, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War I, Family saga / generational saga fiction