Bitter Harvest

'A good read, a fiiting sequel to NO ENEMY BUT WINTER' - BOOKS BY MAIL Now established in local society under Miles Sanderson's patronage, Carrie and Adele Linton seem once again powerless to control their destinies. Adele finds herself engaged to a humourless bachelor many years her senior. While Carrie, trying to improve Manchester's appalling slums, is herself viewed as a good prospect for marriage by wealthy philanthropist Edmund Brook. And Dorothea Sanderson, horrified at her son Elliot's dangerous attachment to Adele, determines to remove him from such an unsuitable influence. But she is unaware that a figure from Elliot's past is bent on vengeance...