title: The Cobweb Cage
author: Oliver, Marina
description: Born in the grim poverty of a Midland mining village, fair and sturdy Marigold Smith knows her future lies with supporting her overburdened parents in raising her two younger sisters. Marigold makes an agonizing decision - she gives up her son, the only living memory she has of Richard, to the parents-in-law who threw her out - in return for the financial security her family so desperately needs.