Mrs. Rule's Foundlings

Hannah Rule has spent years keeping her kitchen spotless and her heart safely closed. Then a small book asks one question she cannot dismiss: what good has she ever done for anyone else? Her answer begins with a neglected child, grows into a fierce makeshift family, and leads to an abandoned baby, a hidden letter and a dangerous claim from the past.

Warm, suspenseful and deeply humane, Annette Lyster’s Victorian domestic novel follows charity as it becomes courage.