Hope

- Blurb -

Somerset, 1832, and baby Hope is cast out from a world of privilege as living proof of her mother's adultery ... Smuggled away from the Harveys and Briargate House to a nearby village, Hope grows up in the arms of the warm and loving Renton family. Nell, her eldest sister, continues to serve the Harvey family and to keep the secret of Hope's true identity - even from her masters. But Hope's idyllic childhood comes to an abrupt end when she is taken into service at Briargate, setting in motion a chain of events that see her forced to flee to the streets of Bristol to lead a vagabond's existence. Tormented by having to abandon her beloved family without explanation and blackmailed into promising never to see them again, Hope is destitute and almost despairing- but she finds the courage to fight back. In the midst of a devastating outbreak of cholera, Hope proves herself a fearless and able nurse, a vocation that will one day take her to the horrific, battlefields of the Crimea. But the secrets of her past are not yet done with Hope Renton - and she must return to England to face the legacy of her birth ... With the storytelling magic that has won Lesley Pearse millions of fans, Hope is the portrait of a remarkable woman who will never let the world - or injustice - bring her down.