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Daughter of Scandal
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Anna is born into the Gillyvor family under the shadow of illegitimacy and a scandal that determines how others judge her before she can shape her own life. In a County Durham community governed by class and reputation, she must negotiate relatives who treat the circumstances of her birth as both a weapon and a permanent social boundary.
As Anna grows older, education, work and love offer possible routes beyond the family’s expectations. The novel follows her effort to claim an identity separate from inherited shame and to decide which ties deserve loyalty when respectability has been used to excuse cruelty.
This book has also been published under the titles The Gillyvors and The Love Child.
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