Charlotte Harman, the clever and serene daughter of a wealthy man, learns a family story that troubles her conscience, while another Charlotte lives in genteel poverty with her struggling relatives. Between Prince’s Gate and lodgings in Kentish Town, a question of how the Harman fortune was made, and to whom it rightly belongs, tests love and loyalty on both sides.
A thoughtful domestic novel of money and honour from a prolific Victorian storyteller. Download the free EPUB.