The Fall and Rise of Lucy Charlton

Elizabeth Gill

Jun 2014 · Sold by Quercus

About this eBook

A gritty, emotional saga about tragic loss, a mysterious inheritance and one woman's determination to succeed in the male-dominated society of 1920s northern England.
Since childhood, Lucy Charlton has dreamed of working with her father in the family solicitor's firm. But when scandal shatters her dreams and her father disowns her she finds herself on the streets, fighting for survival. Joe Hardy has returned to London after the Great War to find his life in tatters--his father is dead and his pregnant fiancee has disappeared. Then Joe learns he's unexpectedly inherited an old river house in Durham from a stranger called Margaret Lee. With nothing left for him in London, he makes arrangements to travel north and claim it. Lucy's determination has finally secured her a job as a legal secretary, campaigning for the rights of the poorest in society. As Joe arrives in her office to collect the keys to his new home, she promises to help him uncover information about his mystery benefactor. But before long, the past comes back to haunt them both, with shocking consequences.

About the author

Elizabeth Gill was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, in England, and was brought up in a tiny village near Durham, where it has been known to snow in July, as her father owned a steelworks there. She spent a year in upstate New York at Emma Willard School and has been writing since the age of twenty-five. She is the author of absorbing sagas including The Singing Winds, Far from My Father's House, and The Road to Berry Edge.