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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

In one way she was glad to be leaving the area, if only for a short while, because she’d found every time she saw a woman with a baby she’d wonder if it was hers. She hadn’t wanted to know where Barnaby was going to place her daughter when she was born, but now she bitterly regretted not finding out. It was odd to think that she wouldn’t even know her if she did see her because she had refused to even have a glimpse of her after she had given birth. But it was too late for regrets now, she told herself, and perhaps far better for the baby never to know that its own mother hadn’t wanted it. Taking a deep breath, she straightened her shoulders and moved on. It was time for the next chapter in her life to begin and surely it couldn’t fail to be better than the last?

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Sixteen

‘When Helen Temple called to see me yesterday, she mentioned that you had recommended the girl who used to work here as our laundry maid to be her temporary nanny,’ Louisa said to Barnaby as he sat beside her bed on his daily visit to her room. He had resigned himself to the fact that he would never share her bed again and had mixed feelings about it, but he kept them to himself.

She raised her eyebrow. ‘Why would you do that?’ she questioned. ‘And why did she leave here?’

Barnaby swallowed his surprise. He hadn’t expected news of Amber’s new job to reach Louisa so quickly but he supposed he should have realised that gossip spread like wildfire. He was painfully aware that Mrs Ruffin was watching him intently and although he was quaking inside his voice was calm when he answered.

‘I believe she left to go to Scarborough to care for her sick uncle for some time and she probably didn’t think we would keep her job open for her because I saw her working with the herring girls in the harbour when I visited one of our trawlers one day. Anyway, Philip Temple had mentioned that they were looking for someone to go to London with them to look after the boys for a couple of months, and so I mentioned it to Miss Ainsley. I believe their last nanny walked out again.’ He gave a wry grin. ‘As you know, those little terrors never manage to keep a nanny for long. Philip is hoping that a boarding school will calm them both down. Helen is dead set against it, of course, but I think Philip put his foot down this time.’