Publisher's Synopsis
Almost everyone in town blames eight-year-old Violet Morgan for the death of her sister, Daisy. Owen, the girls' father, cannot cope and turns to drink, practically abandoning his family. Their mother, Grace, falls victim to the powers of grief. Meanwhile, Violet forms an unlikely friendship with Stanley Adamski, a motherless outcast who works in the mines as a breaker boy. When a blizzard hits on 4 September 1914, and Grace goes into premature labour at home, she is forced to rely on Violet while Owen is off being saved' at a Billy Sunday Revival.'
