Joan Carthew believes it is her birthday, so at twelve she celebrates by running away from a wretched home. A chance meeting with an old lady in a victoria opens a new life, and the grown-up Joan is drawn into a world of steam yachts, journalists, landladies and a lordly family with secrets of its own.
A lively Edwardian romance of reinvention by the co-author of The Lightning Conductor. Download the free EPUB.