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Chapters (57)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
  3. Chapter One
  4. Chapter Two
  5. Chapter Three
  6. Chapter Four
  7. Chapter Five
  8. Chapter Six
  9. Chapter Seven
  10. Chapter Eight
  11. Chapter Nine
  12. Chapter Ten
  13. Chapter Eleven
  14. Chapter Twelve
  15. Chapter Thirteen
  16. Chapter Fourteen
  17. Chapter Fifteen
  18. Chapter Sixteen
  19. Chapter Seventeen
  20. Chapter Eighteen
  21. Chapter Nineteen
  22. Chapter Twenty
  23. Chapter Twenty-One
  24. Chapter Twenty-Two
  25. Chapter Twenty-Three
  26. Chapter Twenty-Four
  27. Chapter Twenty-Five
  28. Chapter Twenty-Six
  29. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  30. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  31. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  32. Chapter Thirty
  33. Chapter Thirty-One
  34. Chapter Thirty-Two
  35. Chapter Thirty-Three
  36. Chapter Thirty-Four
  37. Chapter Thirty-Five
  38. Chapter Thirty-Six
  39. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  40. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  41. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  42. Chapter Forty
  43. Chapter Forty-One
  44. Chapter Forty-Two
  45. Chapter Forty-Three
  46. Chapter Forty-Four
  47. Acknowledgements
  48. About the Authors
  49. Also by Rosie Goodwin
  50. Welcome to the world of Rosie Goodwin!
  51. Letter from Author
  52. Meat and Potato Pie
  53. The Precious Stones series
  54. The Days of the Week Collection
  55. Mothering Sunday
  56. Victorian Tales from Memory Lane
  57. Memory Lane Club

‘Then I suggest you don’t have any idea what my poor girl has had to go through married to this monster! She has suffered one miscarriage after another, plus two stillbirths. Don’t you think most men would have thought that was enough without putting her through it all again? And for what?’ She snorted as she cocked her head towards the ceiling. ‘He might have a son but the chances are he’ll never raise him! He’s a weakling. Why couldn’t it have been the girl instead?’

‘I really don’t think I wish to be involved in this conversation,’ the doctor informed her coldly. ‘So if you will excuse me.’ Nodding at them both, he left the room.

Margaret glared at Barnaby. ‘And what will happen now?’

He shook his head as he passed his hands wearily across his eyes. ‘I don’t know . . . I haven’t had time to think! I suppose all I can do is make the time she has left as comfortable as possible. I’m so sorry, Mother-in-Law—’

‘And so you should be!’ She turned in a swirl of taffeta skirts and stormed from the room, banging the door behind her so hard that it bounced off the wall, leaving Barnaby still reeling from the shock of what he had just learnt. He finally had children but now he was about to lose his wife and guilt flooded through him as he looked at the bleak future that lay ahead.

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Two

‘So what do you think o’ your uncle’s idea, lass?’ Alice asked early the next morning as she and Amber sat at the table enjoying an early morning cup of tea together. Jeremiah wasn’t up yet and she was keen they should have time to talk.

Amber had lain awake half the night thinking about it, and now she answered honestly. ‘I think it’s a brilliant idea for you. You’ve always got on well with Mrs Carter and Uncle Jeremiah and Will and Ted could still come and see you when they had time off work, so I’m sure you’d love living there, especially if Uncle and his wife are going to be away a lot – you’d have Fancy and Biddy to keep you company and the shop to keep you busy. But . . .’ – she chewed on her lip for a moment before going on in a rush – ‘but it wouldn’t be for me. I think I’d like to go my own way and there would be too many memories of . . .’

Alice knew she was thinking of her baby and she gave her a sympathetic smile. ‘But how could I go an’ leave you to manage all by yourself wi’ a clear conscience, lass?’ she said worriedly.