The love Child

Set in County Durham 100 years ago, this is the story of Nathaniel Martell, Maria Dagshaw and their six children - bastard offspring or gillyvors. The book is about the children's quest to resolve the legacy of their birth. A century or so ago there lived at Heap Hollow Cottage, situated near Fellburn in County Durham, a man and a woman and their six children. By all appearances they were a close and loving family. Yet across the happy facade lay a shadow that had lengthened and darkened with the passing years.