Bøker av Mollie Walton

1893. Eighteen-year-old Maria Keay leaves Ironbridge when she is offered an exciting job in a department store in Shrewsbury, but with the exhausting work and the exploitation of shopgirls, Maria must decide if moving away from home was the right decision.

She works as a pit girl at the local coal mines, alongside her childhood playfellow, Evan - although lately, their friendship seems to be blossoming into something more. But when Queenie King from up at the big house takes a fancy to her, Hettie's life is transformed.

1850s Shropshire. Returning to her mother's birthplace at the age of seventeen, Beatrice Ashford encounters a complex family she barely knows.