‘A sweeping novel of the life and struggles of a family in the late 1800s.’ Amazon reviewer.In Victorian Carmarthen, not every story has a happy ending; life is precarious, riven by divides of language, politics and religionEvery day a girl in Bess’s class gets beaten for using Welsh; for using their own tongue.
Bess Morgan’s choices are limited. When her baby brother dies, then her mother carted away to the newly built asylum she wonders why women ever marry. Might her brother’s friend, student teacher and ex coal miner Abel change her mind?
Handsome Richard hates the flattery and fawning required of a draper’s apprentice. He longs to study then teach. Besotted by Magistrate Davies’ flirtatious daughter, he hopes to marry far above his station in life.
A stand-alone sequel, set 20 years after Book 1; ‘From Waterloo to Water Street,’ the novel explores the realities of life in Wales and London in the 1860’s and 70’s. Meticulously researched, it is based on the real lives of the next generation of S E Morgan’s ancestors.
