The Favourite Child

Where there's daring, there's danger...
Isabella Ashton has always been her father's favourite, but when she gets involved with the new Birth Control Movement, he is scandalised. A decade has elapsed since the end of the Great War and running a family planning clinic in Salford is challenging but rewarding work.
Bella is grateful for the help of Violet Howarth, a generous-hearted woman who takes her in off the street. Before long, a friendship with Violet's son, Dan, blossoms into the beginnings of love.
But Bella also crosses paths with handsome ne'er-do-well Billy Quinn, leader of an illegal betting ring, and everything she has worked for is suddenly put at risk.
This is a bewitching tale of drama, jealousy and the fight for women's rights, perfect for fans of Dilly Court and Nadine Dorries.Praise for The Favourite Child
'Compelling and fascinating' Middlesborough Evening Gazette
'A revelation in telling us what it was like before women had rights' 5* Reader review
'One of those books that you can't put down, loved it' 5* Reader review

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: 05.03.2020
• EAN: 9781788637930
• ISBN: 978-1-78863-793-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 19 mm
• Series: A Salford Saga; Salford Saga
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Fairytales, sagas, legends; Sagas, Historical romance, FICTION / Women, FICTION / Sagas, Historical fiction, FICTION / Friendship, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, Lancashire, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Family saga / generational saga fiction