by Dilly Court · Arrow · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780099538837
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«A Mother's Secret» is the historical fiction novel by Dilly Court, published by Arrow in paperback (512 pages, in English).
In nineteenth-century London, seventeen-year-old Belinda Phillips falls in love with an Anglo-Indian officer whom she cannot aspire to marry. When he disappears and is presumed dead, Belinda discovers she is pregnant, so she accepts an arranged marriage with a middle-aged widower and secretly sends her daughter, Cassy, to the care of a wet nurse in Cripplegate. The girl grows up in poverty and neglect, dreaming of the mother she has never known, until the old woman's death leaves her alone and destitute.
Family saga of the historical genre, originally published in 2010 and reissued in 2011 by Arrow.
For readers of family sagas and Victorian dramas with female protagonists, in the vein of the author's novels and those of other women writers of the genre.
Dilly Court is an English author of popular historical fiction and family saga novels also writing under the pseudonym of Lily Baxter. She published her first book when she was 65 and, as of 2023, her novels have sold more than four million copies.
