Hannah

De: Jean Mead

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

1823 - The story begins in a small pauper's cottage in Dorset. Hannah disobeying her father, leaves home to become a kitchen maid at the grand mansion, Croxton Hall. Francis, the handsome heir to the estate, takes an interest in the pretty maid. Flattered by his attention, Hannah loses her head to love. Believing that Francis will defy conventions and make her his own one day. Francis's true interest are the beautiful identical twins, the wealthy well-born Cavendish sisters. Disgraced and broken hearted, Hannah seeks refuge at home but her father refuses to house her and she is homeless. Destitute and without a character reference, Hannah fears she will be forced into prostitution on Weymouth Quay. Searching for somewhere to sleep, she discovers Hawks Rise, an abandoned isolated cottage on a bleak peninsula. It is here that she begins to rebuild her life. Sheltered by the companionship of the old sea captain, Seth Armstrong. When Francis and the Fitzgerald family cross her path some years later, Seth can't shield her, and Hannah finds herself staring at the shadow of the hangman's noose. The story takes the reader from the glorious Dorset Downs to the dripping walls of a filthy prison and beyond.