YORKSHIRE GRIT - A Trilogy of Tales

Three historical novels make up this collection, each following a young woman in nineteenth-century England who faces harsh treatment and the limits placed on women of her time. In the harbour town of Whitby, Emma plans to slip aboard a ship bound for Australia, hoping to flee a cruel husband after the loss of her baby. Lucy Oldfield's story begins when she steals an expensive doll from her dying mistress, and follows her fortunes over the next two decades, seen through the doll's glass eyes. Amy Dodd, on the Leeds and Liverpool canal, is running from a man who haunts her, and along the towpath she uncovers a dark truth about her pursuer. Each tale shows the stubborn resilience the title describes.