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- ISBN 9780008838270
- Weight: 270g
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jul 2026
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Could the secret of her past risk her future happiness?
Escape to the world of the Staffordshire Potteries, from the award-winning writer Margaret Kaine.
Young Beth Sherwin dreams of going to university – a heady ambition for a girl whose family work in Potteries factories.
But when a violent encounter leaves her pregnant at just seventeen, Beth can’t bring herself to tell her widowed mother. She bears the burden alone and gives up her precious baby daughter for adoption.
Heartbroken but determined, Beth works hard to finish school and take on a challenging job. She even finds herself falling in love with the charming eldest son of the wealthy Rushton family, Michael.
But if Michael proposes to her, Beth will face a dilemma: does she dare tell Michael the secrets of her past? Because even if Michael would stand by her, how can Beth cope knowing that the brute who fathered her lost child could destroy her wedding?
This heart-wrenching and engrossing historical romance is perfect for fans of Kitty Neale, Dilly Court, and Glenda Young.
This novel was previously published under the title Ring of Clay.
***** Readers love Margaret Kaine! *****
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Margaret Kaine was born and educated in Stoke-on-Trent, the famous industrial area which inspired the setting of her page-turning and heart-warming historical novels. ‘The Potteries Girls’ sagas are set across the 1950s-70s following the lives of young women and families in the Midlands, and each can be read as a stand-alone novel. Her debut novel won the Society of Authors' Sagittarius Prize and the Romantic Novelists' Association New Writer’s Award.
