Echo of Another Time

Celie Marlow begins working in the Latimers kitchen when she is only ten, learning her art from kindly Mrs Harper. By the age of eighteen, she has become a talented cook.

Celie knows her place, and longs only to run a kitchen as skilfully as her mentor. Until she falls in love with the wrong man: Richard Latimer, eldest son of the house. And all their lives change with frightening swiftness.

Driven from her home, Celie finds unexpected success in a new venture with Mrs Harper – then loses everything once more. Thrown on to the streets of Liverpool, penniless and desperate, she will have to find her own way.