Lily Baxter
A compelling new First World War novel from the bestselling author of The Shopkeeper’s Daughter.
Dulcie Mead lives with her consumptive mother, Emily, in a rented cottage in Dorset and is finding it difficult to get work. Her mother is employed as a charwoman with the rich Winter family at the manor house. Emily’’s condition worsens when they can’’t pay the rent and are evicted from the cottage. She is taken into a TB sanatorium and Dulcie becomes a companion to Marianne Winter. The two girls bond and when war breaks out, Marianne persuades Dulcie to join her in Paris, working for military intelligence.
And all too soon Dulcie’’s life is in danger….