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Chapters (76)
  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Dedication
  4. Prologue
  5. Chapter One
  6. Chapter Two
  7. Chapter Three
  8. Chapter Four
  9. Chapter Five
  10. Chapter Six
  11. Chapter Seven
  12. Chapter Eight
  13. Chapter Nine
  14. Chapter Ten
  15. Chapter Eleven
  16. Chapter Twelve
  17. Chapter Thirteen
  18. Chapter Fourteen
  19. Chapter Fifteen
  20. Chapter Sixteen
  21. Chapter Seventeen
  22. Chapter Eighteen
  23. Chapter Nineteen
  24. Chapter Twenty
  25. Chapter Twenty-One
  26. Chapter Twenty-Two
  27. Chapter Twenty-Three
  28. Chapter Twenty-Four
  29. Chapter Twenty-Five
  30. Chapter Twenty-Six
  31. Chapter Twenty-Seven
  32. Chapter Twenty-Eight
  33. Chapter Twenty-Nine
  34. Chapter Thirty
  35. Chapter Thirty-One
  36. Chapter Thirty-Two
  37. Chapter Thirty-Three
  38. Chapter Thirty-Four
  39. Chapter Thirty-Five
  40. Chapter Thirty-Six
  41. Chapter Thirty-Seven
  42. Chapter Thirty-Eight
  43. Chapter Thirty-Nine
  44. Chapter Forty
  45. Chapter Forty-One
  46. Chapter Forty-Two
  47. Chapter Forty-Three
  48. Chapter Forty-Four
  49. Chapter Forty-Five
  50. Chapter Forty-Six
  51. Chapter Forty-Seven
  52. Chapter Forty-Eight
  53. Chapter Forty-Nine
  54. Chapter Fifty
  55. Chapter Fifty-One
  56. Chapter Fifty-Two
  57. Chapter Fifty-Three
  58. Chapter Fifty-Four
  59. Chapter Fifty-Five
  60. Chapter Fifty-Six
  61. Chapter Fifty-Seven
  62. Chapter Fifty-Eight
  63. Acknowledgements
  64. Also by Rosie Goodwin
  65. About Rosie Goodwin
  66. Welcome to the world of Rosie Goodwin!
  67. A Letter from Rosie Goodwin
  68. Cissie’s Roast Chicken
  69. An extract from Rosie Goodwin’s next novel
  70. Prologue
  71. Chapter One
  72. Love Rosie Goodwin?
  73. The Days of the Week collection
  74. Mothering Sunday
  75. Tales from Memory Lane
  76. Memory Lane Advert

She raised her chin and sniffed. ‘But they would be, wouldn’t they? They’ve been born and raised here. But of course, now that we no longer own the place, I wouldn’t dream of imposing on your good nature for any longer than I have to!’ And with that she gave a toss of her head and strode past him without so much as glancing in his direction.

Giles watched her go with a bemused expression on his face. All he could hope was that her sister might be a little friendlier than her. They certainly hadn’t got off to the best of starts, though he couldn’t for the life of him think what he might have said to offend her. But then that was women for you, he thought with a shrug, putting her from his mind as he got on with his work.

Chapter Fifteen

Early in April Kathy emerged from the toilet in the nurses’ staff room at the hospital and leaning heavily on the edge of the sink she stared at her pale face in the small mirror above it. She looked, as Cissie would say, like death warmed up and she felt it too. And now she could no longer deny what she had feared. She had missed her third course and without any doctor confirming it she knew that she was carrying a child – Ben’s child.

Fear gripped her as she thought of the effect this was going to have on her life. Matron would insist she resign the moment she found out and her mother … What would her mother say? On top of everything else she’d had to endure over the last months she would be presenting her with an illegitimate grandchild. Just for a moment panic overwhelmed her and she wondered if she should visit a certain lady who lived on the outskirts of the town, but she dismissed that thought almost immediately. The woman was well known for helping young ladies get rid of unwanted babies but only the year before a girl had been admitted to the hospital after visiting her and it had cost her her life when she had haemorrhaged and bled to death. It had been terrible for Kathy and the staff to have to stand helplessly by and watch the girl die and she knew she would never forget it for as long as she lived.