The yearning heart
By: Sylvia Broady
Publisher: Robert Hale
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780709092117
Subjects: Family secrets; Mothers and sons; Fiction
Description: It is war-time Britain and seduced by her brother-in-law, Frances, 16, becomes pregnant and is banished to a lonely farm. She gives birth to twins, a boy and a girl, whom her mother heartlessly wrenches from her. And when told her baby daughter has died, Frances is overcome with grief.