TY - BOOK AU - Rees,Lynette TI - A daughter's promise SN - 9781529403879 U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2020/// CY - London PB - Quercus KW - Young women KW - Fiction KW - Poor KW - England KW - London KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Whitechapel (London, England) KW - Social conditions KW - 19th century KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcgft KW - Historical fiction N1 - First published in Great Britain in 2018 N2 - Eighteen-year-old seamstress Kathryn Flynn lives in Whitechapel, London, struggling to support her widowed mother and younger siblings. But when her work starts drying up and her mother falls ill, she is forced to consider desperate measures. Then she meets 'Squire', an older city gentleman, who falls instantly in love with her and offers to take her under his wing. 'Squire' could give Kathryn the life she's always wanted but is there something darker lurking beneath his kindness? ER -