When the new Lady Cardross begins to fill her days with fashion and frivolity, the Earl has to wonder whether she did really only marry him for his money, as his family so helpfully suggests. And...

The orphaned heroine Ruth, apprenticed to a dressmaker, is seduced and then abandoned by wealthy young Henry Bellingham. Shamed in the eyes of society by her illegitimate son, and yet rejecting...

Aunt Margaret, surrogate mother to teenage Saskia, has sent her niece to Canada for a year. Now, buoyed up by an unexpected legacy that's given her a year of freedom, Aunt Margaret decides to kick...

It is 1650 and a baby lies raw and cold, dead before it even drew breath. A young servant girl, terrified and alone, is accused of its murder and sent to the gallows. Protesting her innocence in...

Charlotte Brandon built up Victoriana, her hugely successful nostalgic clothing business in Dorset, from nothing, even though it meant putting the needs of the company before those of her two...

January 1901, the day after Queen Victoria’s death, two families visit neighbouring graves in a London cemetery. The Waterhouses revere the late Queen and cling to Victorian traditions; the...