Probyn Kilmaster, wanting more from life, runs away to join the army. On his first posting he becomes involved with a woman, and makes her his wife. But when she starts to boss him around, Probyn searches for escape. He is sent back to England, only to fall in love and marry.
First published in 1987 and now reissued, a romantic saga set in Yorkshire and Ireland in the 1870s. A couple who have left the squalor of the slums, look to their grandchildren to fill the chasm of sadness created by the fiery death of their son and the actions of a rebellious granddaughter. From the author of A LONG WAY FROM HEAVEN.