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Hannah Massey
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Hannah Massey rules a working-class County Durham household with the certainty of someone who has survived poverty by refusing to yield. Her remaining ambition is to see her children established in the house where she once worked as a servant, and she expects every member of the family to contribute to that rise.
The return of her favoured daughter Rosie from London threatens Hannah’s carefully ordered future. Rosie’s evasions conceal a truth that challenges the matriarch’s judgement and turns family loyalty into conflict, forcing Hannah to discover that authority cannot protect her children from desire or consequence.