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From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, highly anticipated new novel, inspired by real historical figures and events. In a quiet house in the countryside outside London, the finishing touches are being made to welcome a group of young women.

From the Sunday Times bestseller and winner of the Women's Prize Futures Award, the captivating, highly anticipated new novel from Stacey Halls.

Two women, brought together by a child, and a secret that will change everything... London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara in the London Orphans' Workhouse, Bess Bright returns to retrieve the child. Fearing the worst, that Clara may have died there, Bess can't shake her astonishment when she is assured that she has already gone looking for her daughter. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who...

Ein bewegender historischer Roman über zwei ungleiche Frauen, die ihre Geheimnisse wahren und ihre Familien beschützen wollen. West Yorkshire, 1904. Ruby May hofft, dass ihre Stelle als Kindermädchen bei der wohlhabenden Familie England der lang ersehnte Neuanfang wird. Doch die schöne Mrs England verhält sich seltsam: Sie ist distanziert und verschlossen, zeigt kaum Interesse an ihren Kindern oder dem charmanten Ehemann. Mysteriöse Ereigni...

A gorgeous brand new cover edition of the Sunday Times Bestseller, Richard & Judy Book Club Pick and original break-out witchlit novel. Features an exclusive extract from Stacey Halls' unmissable new novel THE HOUSEHOLD - available to pre-order now!To save her child, she will trust a stranger. To protect a secret, she must risk her life . . . Fleetwood Shuttleworth is 17 years old, married, and pregnant for the fourth time. But as the mistress...

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Highly atmospheric and tense." -Richard Osman, internationally bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club Mrs. England is a portrait of an Edwardian marriage, an enthralling tale of men and women, power and control, courage, truth and the very darkest deception. West Yorkshire, 1904. When recently graduated Ruby May takes a nanny position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty o...

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England im 17. Jahrhundert. Obwohl erst siebzehn Jahre alt, hat Fleetwood Shuttleword bereits drei Kinder zur Welt gebracht. Doch ihr Gatte Richard, Herr über Gawthorpe Hall, erwartet einen männlichen Erben. Um nicht in Ungnade zu fallen, muss Fleetwood ihm diesen Wunsch erfüllen. Doch ihr Leibarzt prophezeit, dass die nächste Geburt für sie den sicheren Tod bedeutet. Nur die Hebamme Alice Gray verspricht ihr Hilfe. Doch gegen Alice werden ung...

A Sunday Times bestseller! "Highly atmospheric and tense."--Richard Osman, New YorkTimes bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club Simmering with slow-burning menace, Mrs. England is a portrait of an Edwardian marriage, an enthralling tale of men and women, power and control, courage, truth and the very darkest deception. West Yorkshire, 1904. When recently graduated Ruby May takes a nanny position looking after the children of Charl...

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Something's not right here. In the house. With the family.' West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated Hardcastle House, it becomes clear there's something not quite right about the beautiful, mysterious Mrs En...

London 1754: Die junge Bess Bright, die in bitterer Armut, im Schlamm und Dreck des Londoner Hafens aufgewachsen ist, findet sich von einem Moment zum anderen in einem Alptraum wieder. Vor sechs Jahren musste sie ihre gerade zur Welt gekommene Tochter Clara ins Waisenhaus geben, außerstande, sie zu ernähren. Jetzt, da sie Clara endlich zu sich holen kann, sagt man Bess, dass ihre Tochter schon längst abgeholt wurde. Aber von wem? Im Kampf um C...

Zwei Frauen, ein Kind, ein gemeinsames Schicksal London 1754: Die junge Bess Bright, die in bitterer Armut, im Schlamm und Dreck des Londoner Hafens aufgewachsen ist, findet sich von einem Moment zum anderen in einem Alptraum wieder. Vor sechs Jahren musste sie ihre gerade zur Welt gekommene Tochter Clara ins Waisenhaus geben, außerstande, sie zu ernähren. Jetzt, da sie Clara endlich zu sich holen kann, sagt man Bess, dass ihre Tochter schon...

West Yorkshire, 1904. When newly graduated nurse Ruby May takes a position looking after the children of Charles and Lilian England, a wealthy couple from a powerful dynasty of mill owners, she hopes it will be the fresh start she needs. But as she adapts to life at the isolated Hardcastle House, it becomes clear there's something not quite right about the beautiful, mysterious Mrs England.Ostracised by the servants and feeling increasingly un...

From the bestselling author of The Familiars and The Foundling comes Stacey Halls's most compelling and ambitious novel to date. West Yorkshire, 1904.

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Two women, bound by a child, a nd a secret that will change everything . . . London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading the worst, that Clara has died in care, she is astonished when she is told she has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl - and w...

Dreading the worst - that Clara has died in care - the last thing she expects to hear is that her daughter has already been reclaimed - by her. When her close friend - an ambitious young doctor at the Foundling Hospital - persuades her to hire a nursemaid for her daughter, she is hesitant to welcome someone new into her home and her life.

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