Elm Tree Road - Anna Jacobs

Driven from their home by their brutal father, the Willitt sisters - Mattie, Nell and Renie - face more heartache. Nell marries her lover, Cliff, and after parting ways with Mattie the couple take the youngest sister Renie to Lancashire. But Nell's marriage suffers - after giving Cliff a daughter, she's unable to conceive again. Then, after Renie leaves for London, tragedy strikes, and Nell, mad with grief, runs away hoping to be reunited with her sisters. A gypsy tells Nell she will still find her destiny, under 'three big trees on a hill'. Meanwhile she meets Hugh, a farmer who she feels drawn to. Could the trees on his land be a sign, or is Nell too damaged by her past to let herself love again?