ASIN: B00Y2OR3JG
Publisher: Lume Books
Pages: 556
London 1914Even before the outbreak of war, 1914 has not been a good year for Sylvia Shaw. Her comfortable family life has gone: prosperity lost in the court case that drained the life from her father and saw the end of her engagement to Hugh Osborne. And now her brothers are off to war. The cause for which she had worked as a Suffragist is gone too. The campaign for Votes for Women has been laid aside for the duration of the war, but not before it exacted a terrible toll on her. Now she must struggle to find work and rebuild some kind of life. If it’s work that helps the war effort, then so much the better. But first she needs a decent place to live, and there are pitfalls for a vulnerable single woman in London, particularly in the Bohemian world of artist Octavius Jameson.Max Bryson, the lawyer who represented her family in the court case before the war, has mixed feelings at first ...
