Charity: A Five Virtues Novel

BOOK THREE - BENDIGO, 1883. Charity White is the under-cook at Colehill, a grand house on the outskirts of Sandhurst. When her friend, Mercy Smith, leaves Colehill to open a tea-house, Charity expects to become the new cook. Usurped by the violent, drunken housekeeper's cousin, she escapes to a hidden garden and into the arms of Charles French, the gardener's son. As her lover deserts her and her friend dies, she flees Sandhurst, pregnant and broken hearted, and totally unprepared for the s...