The Girl From Poor House Lane

How far will a mother go to protect her child?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
An unputdownable saga of motherhood and family love, the first book in the The Poor House Lane Sagas is perfect for Rosie Goodwin and Dilly Court.

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: 9781788633901
• ISBN: 978-1-78863-390-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 29 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, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, Cumbria & Lake District, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / World War I, Family saga / generational saga fiction