num_pages: 380
description: Evan Walters did not intend to marry Margaret Ann Jones when they first met in 1887. He knew they were too different. For one thing, her family were slaves to respectability; and besides, his heart belonged to the lovely but wayward Ellen Rourke. But Evan never could resist small, helpless creatures. The sudden death of Margaret Ann's parents elicited the long-awaited marriage proposal and she became a miner's wife in the rough end of Abercarn—a far cry from the lace-curtained proprietary of her dreams. From this troubled union a vast brood of children would spring. Of the girls, Lily inherited her father's dark good looks, and looked set to inherit her mother's narrow way of life too. Then in 1911 a family crisis swept her and her sister Bethan off to live at Uncle Rhys's pub in Cardiff. In that rumbustious, vibrantly alive city, with her exotic cousin Lexie at her side, she would experience a freedom undreamed of in prudish valleys. When the war came, that too would broaden Lily's horizons, even as the men around her were marching away to the trenches...
language: English
title: Lily of the Valleys
titlecomplete: Lily of the Valleys
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Brill Rodopi