Title: Homecoming girls
Description: It's Hull, 1874. Elizabeth has married the eligible Patrick Goodson. Her beautiful attendant, the adopted Jewel Newmarch, looks on at this couple settling down and feels a restlessness and an intense longing to know her roots. And so she decides to return to her birthplace in America, taking the bride's twin sister Clara as her companion. As the girls embark on a life-changing voyage of discovery it becomes clear that it is not only Jewel who has things to discover, and they find themselves reassessing their thoughts on family, race, friendship and home. But most importantly, love ...
Subjects: Social conditions, Adoptees, Genealogy, Fiction
Places: Hull, Hull (England), England
Time periods: 19th century