Bid Time Return
First, there is Louisa - the daughter of a wealthy ironmaster, her life is changed forever when her father remarries.  For Susannah and her two daughters resent Louisa, not least for her budding beauty and hoydenish ways. Then there is Rupert - barely eleven when his father marries Elinor, Rupert scarcely knows what a mother is.  He was only a few days old when his own died, and throughout his childhood his father has rarely mentioned her. Finally, there is Joanna - an orphan, she has come to Furness from India to seek her family; and finds she has inherited more than a house and a mining business.  All three find themselves interwoven in this vividly moving saga of relationships and family ties.