Which is a particular problem for Sarah, who is educated alongside Lucy, and ends up finding she doesn't really fit in with either class. On arrival Maria gives birth to another daughter, Sarah, and shortly afterwards Masterton's wife Isobel has a daughter, so these two girls grow up together, although the older they get the more the social hierarchy of the times come between them. Ma Scravyn, one of the most interesting characters in the book, is the head of the housekeepers, and a herbal wise woman of the district. Will is some kind of farmer/land agent, and Maria works as a housekeeper. Lucky for Will Foster, he'd been saving the ship owner's nephew at the time, and so the family are offered jobs on the Masterton's new estate out in the countryside on the Holderness Coast. Back in the days before "where there's blame there's a claim" the family has to figure out another way to earn their crust. He works on the whaling ships but is forced to give it up when an accident at work means he loses a leg. There's Maria and Will and their kiddies. Set in the second half of the 1700s, starting in the slums in Hull, this follows two generations of the Foster family. Let's not get into a competition here, but Holtby is a far superior writer.Īnyhoo. I've just been on holiday there so the setting was relevant (although the actual places a lot of it takes place at have since washed into the sea!) and I'm curious about that corner of the county, as one of my favourite writers set her books there (Winifred Holtby). I wanted to read it, as said, as it had been recommended and also as it's set in East Yorkshire. Perhaps I am a little disappointed given where I got the recommendation from I was expecting a lot more from this. Historical family saga/melodrama/cheesey romance. And it falls into that category which my other half calls grannie porn. And yes, it's all right, but not mind blowing and honestly, very predictable. this was her first book, I believe, so some consideration should be given for that.
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