Inspired by real events, two women journey from Victorian Scotland to the North of England, overcoming poverty and battling circumstance to make new lives
Margaret Gill is the Victorian matriarch of a respectable artisan family from small-town Forres in North-east Scotland.
The decision to abandon the hardships of rural Scotland to seek a better life in industrial Carlisle presents Margaret and those close to her with many daunting challenges.
Margaret, her daughter, Isa, and grand-daughter, Bella, must tackle these obstacles to their happiness, each in very different ways, while overcoming the oppressive strictures of nineteenth century society.
Join Margaret and Isa on this extraordinary journey through a wholly authentic and epic evocation of Victorian Britain and all its inequalities. In There is Another Country author, Lorna Searle, inspired by meticulous research into the lives of her own relatives, here presents their remarkable story in compelling fictional form.