Publisher's Synopsis
Hackney, 1898. Business is good at Arthur Milton's bakery but the atmosphere is anything but. Agnes Handly cannot hide her hatred for Arthur's young wife, Ellen, fuelled in part by her own feelings for the baker. So when Ellen offers to help the young street orphan Micky, it's not long before Agnes reports her for encouraging beggars. Ellen, meanwhile, is beginning to question her marriage. When her parents died, it was Arthur, her father's best friend, who took her in. Afraid of facing the world alone she decided to marry him. Now she faces the consequences - Ellen has never felt the thrill of being courted by a man her own age and she cannot help finding dashing Ted Parker attractive.
