Out of Darkness

All her life Amelia Hicks has felt like an outsider. A former Suffragette and mother to an illegitimate child, she has been cast aside by her wealthy family and sent to live with an elderly aunt in Hove. When her aunt dies, Amelia finds herself at the mercy of her unloving father who sends her to London to live with Blanche Armstrong, her glamorous and capricious cousin and her shell-shocked husband Richard. Amelia finds herself thrust back into society, coping with Blanche’s ever changing moods and fighting the growing attraction between her and Richard, who is carrying his own demons after his experience in the First World War.

Amelia’s life takes a dramatic turn when she receives news of the son she gave away five years ago, and when a scruffy man with amnesia turns up at the shelter at which she is a volunteer, she realises it is David, her beloved older brother who was declared missing presumed dead after the Battle of the Somme.

After so long in the shadows, Amelia steps back into the light when a whole new world opens up before her. She finally gets the chance to make a difference to the lives of those most in need, and finds love in the most unlikely place. But will she choose to stay in London and continue her campaigning work, or will she sacrifice all that she has come to love, to move to the other side of the world for a chance to be a mother to the son she last saw when he was an hour old?