Bone China - Laura Purcell

Consumption has ravaged Louise Pinecroft's family, leaving her and her father alone and heartbroken.But Dr Pinecroft has plans for a revolutionary experiment: convinced that sea air will prove to be the cure his wife and children needed, he arranges to house a group of prisoners suffering from the same disease in the cliffs beneath his new Cornish home.Forty years later, Hester Why arrives at Morvoren House to take up a position as nurse to the now partially paralysed and almost entirely mute Miss... Zobrazit více