Sins of the Father

Emma Chambers has an way out of the poverty-stricken life she lives – but it might just destroy her to take it…The gritty new tale from the bestselling author of NOBODY’S GIRL.DESPERATE…Left to raise eight siblings after her mother's death, 17-year-old Emma Chambers faces a daily battle with hunger and her father's drunken rages.Until she is offered a way out. If she marries landlord Horace Bell – twenty years her senior – Emma can swap abject poverty for comfort.DEGRADED…But Horace soon reveals his true, sadistic colours. Emma is thankful when he eventually abandons her – until she realises she is again penniless and in peril.A chance meeting plants an idea in her mind. …