The White Apron

The White Apron by Christine Eyres is a powerful novel of that tells the story of Agnes and her life as a working-class woman in Vuctorian Scotland. Young Aggie's life is secure with her family in a village on the outskirts of Edinburgh. She thrives at school and has ambitions above her station but her hopes crumple when she is forced to leave school to work as a maid. Although Agnes has vowed never to marry, she becomes enchanted by a young soldier. William, newly returned from defending Q...