On Christmas Day 1836 James Leigh dies on his farm near Rochdale, whispering forgiveness for the daughter he had cast out years before. His widow sells up and moves to Manchester with her sons, determined to find Lizzie, who has fallen into disgrace, while the quiet Susan Palmer cares for a little girl whose story is bound up with theirs.
A short, compassionate tale of a fallen woman and a mother’s love, written for Dickens’s Household Words in 1850. Download the free EPUB.