As the Great War looms, a single mother works to open her own business while weathering hardships in this saga by The Girl from Poor House Lane.

After giving birth to her daughter, Kate O’Connor finds herself back in Poor House Lane with some momentous decisions to make.

Faced with the opportunity to move out of the slums, she invests her unexpected fortune in a new shoe factory to challenge Eliot Tyson’s monopoly over the workforce, regardless of whether or not he is the father of her children.

But nothing is ever that simple, especially when old enemies and estranged relatives return to thwart her every scheme . . .

The second, moving instalment in The Poor House Lane Sagas, The Child From Nowhere is a wartime saga perfect for fans of Val Wood and Katie Flynn.

Praise for the writing of Freda Lightfoot

“Freda Lightfoot’s talent for creating believable characters makes this a page-turning read.” —Newcastle Evening Chronicle

“Charming and exciting. . . . A lovely story by an author with extraordinary feeling in her writing.” —Bangor Chronicle

“Real people and real dramas are her mainstays.” —Westmorland Gazette

“The writer clearly knows her Manchester well, especially the canals, warehouses, factories and humble shops and dwellings of the poor. Her historical research has been painstaking and the sense of the period is very real.” —Historical Novel Society

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