Another Man's Child Hardback: Piatkus 1999 Paperback: Bantam 2000 Large Print: Magna 2001 Audio: Magna C) June Francis 1999 It is 1909 and eighteen-year-old Molly May, her husband Frank lost-at-sea and presumed dead, has escaped from her cruel in-laws in Liverpool along the Leeds Liverpool Canal to Burscough Bridge. Here in a cottage, she gives birth to a baby girl. Just when Molly thinks she and her daughter are doomed to the workhouse, handsome and enigmatic widower Nathan Collins arrives needing a wet nurse for his daughter Jessica. Then tragedy strikes again when Jessica is found dead in her cot. Molly is terrirfied that she will be accused of murder, so when her own daughter is mistaken for Nathan's she is unable to tell the truth. Acting as Nanny to her own child isn't quite as hard as Molly imagined, especially as her relationship with Nathan deepens. But despite her obvious interest, Molly can't help but see trouble ahead in the form of Nathan's scheming mother Dorothy, who wastes no opportunity to remind Molly of her lowly position. And how can Molly ever hope to win Nathan who she has lied to, and who, because of her, is raising another man's child as his own? Back to Books1 Back to Main Page