Ellan Vinnin Author:Lyn Andrews Life was not easy for George Vannin and his young daughter. Elllan's mother had died when the child was four but somehow George had managed to rear the child alone. Ellan adored her father. — She was ten when the shaft at Foxdale Mine collapsed, and her father never came up. From then on she lived -- and drudged -- with... more » Aunt Maud, a dour, stark woman with a quick temper and a harsh tongue. Maud's husband had died in the mine disaster too and she never forgave the family at the Big House for their part in the tragedy. When Ellan was offered a chance to better herself -- tweenie at the Big House -- Aunt Maud savagely forbade it.
But Ellan's chance was to come when Jamie Corlett asked her to marry him. Everything changed, the future looked bright and a new life beckoned in a new world. But it was to be many years, and Ellan was to travel many places, before happiness was finally within her grasp.« less