Publisher's Synopsis
Beginning the wonderful, heartwarming story of the Rising family Will Rising had dragged himself from humble beginnings to his own small tailoring business in Gloucester - and on the way he'd fallen violently in love with Florence, refined, delicate, and wanting something better for her children. All the Rising family accept that May is their mother's favourite - she has inherited Mama's beauty and sweet temper. March, the eldest girl, feels herself to be the least loved, the plain, unattractive one who, as the family grew, becomes more and more the household drudge. But March, a strange, intelligent, unhappy child, has inherited some of her mother's dreams. She is determined to break out of the round of poverty and hard work, to find wealth, and love, and happiness.
