| A Wise Child
Richard Mason Related title:
Branthwaite's Lot A Wise Child is the long-awaited sequel to Branthwaite's Lot. The day after a body is found on the land known as Branthwaite's Lot, Dorothy Tyler leaves her home in Barrow in Furness, escaping from an abusive relationship which she has kept secret from her son Harry. When Dorothy arrives at Harry's cottage, he is determined to find out why his mother has abandoned her previous life and also wonders how he is going to tell her that the search for her real parents has come to nothing. When Dorothy is forced to stay at the cottage to help her injured son, the secrets of Branthwaite's Lot and its links to her own origins begin to emerge and she starts to build a new and more fulfilling life for herself. Will Dorothy be allowed to live in happiness or will her past and the pressures of life in the farming community conspire to destroy her dreams of the future yet again? Dorothy will need to draw on the strength and wisdom of a culture which she at first found both alien and terrifying.
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