A Claim to Kin

About the Book

Sarah Mason lives in a typical Victorian industrial town. Happy to be starting her Easter holiday from school, her joy is short lived for, a year after her step-father disappeared without trace, her mother is tragically killed in a road accident, leaving Sarah and her twin brothers without any means of support. Stoically she decides her only course of action is to go in search of her real father and with some reluctance places the boys in the local orphanage.

Her search begins in a small Wessex village where sadly Sarah becomes caught up in the very lifestyle she has been so desperate to evade.

Eventually she meets a wealthy industrialist who becomes devotedly attached to her and helps her in her brave quest but the unexpected outcome leaves Sarah devastated.

A Claim to Kin exposes the multi-faceted, complex relationships which can exist between different generations of the sexes.

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About the Author

Patricia Dolling-Mann was born in Northampton starting work in a newspaper office with a view to becoming a reporter. After a short time she realised her vocation was to nurse. During her career as a college nurse she studied part-time with the Open University where she gained an honours degree in English Social History and Literature. A passion for the writings of Thomas Hardy prompted her and her husband to move, nine years ago, to Dorset where they have settled happily. Early retirement from the nursing profession has given her time to fulfil her lifelong ambition to become a published author. Her first novel Weatherbury Farm, a sequel to Thomas Hardy’s Far From the Madding Crowd, was published in 1999. A Claim to Kin is her second book and another of the Wessex Chronicles. She is presently writing her third novel, a sequel to Hardy’s, Tess of the d’Urbervilles