Also by
    Judith Lennox

    Reynardine, 1989 
    Till the Day Goes Down, 1991
    The Glittering Strand, 1991
    The Italian Garden, 1993
    The Secret Years, 1994
    The Winter House, 1996
    Some Old Lover’s Ghost, 1997
    Footprints on the Sand, 1998
    Shadow Child, 1999

Middlemere

The Coles have lived at Middlemere for half a century. The forcible eviction of the family during the second world war sets off a chain of events that echoes through the generations.

Nineteen-year-old Romy Cole is quick, clever and single-minded. She longs to escape the poverty and narrowness of her upbringing and to protect her mother and her younger brother, Jem. A chance meeting with Mirabel Plummer, owner of the Trelawney, an exclusive London hotel, gives Romy the opportunity she has been craving, and plunges her into a new life – and a new love - that will eventually allow her to resolve the tragedies of the past…