Title: The Yearning Heart
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.
Subjects: Family secrets, Mothers and sons, Fiction, Mothers and sons, fiction, Fiction, general