
Charlotte Wyndham's dreams of falling in love and marrying are dashed when her father is imprisoned for fraud before she had even completed her first season. In Victorian England, her family's disgrace left her cast out of aristocratic society, and meant she could never hope to find a suitable husband and a wealthy future. Alone in the world, Charlotte had resigned herself to a life of poverty and drudgery in London. But then Charlotte's childhood friend, Verity Conniston, rescues her from her miserable London existence and takes her to live on the beautiful Conniston estate in the Kent countryside. There Charlotte slowly rebuilds her life as she becomes like family to Verity, her husband Guy and their daughters. When Ket, Guy's handsome younger brother, returns home, Charlotte finally realises that there are still some dreams that she can never hope to come true. But can life on a beautiful country estate ever compensate her lost dreams? How long can this idyllic life last before her family's past returns to haunt her?

1 February 1921 – 03 December 2016
Patricia Denise Robins was born on February 1, 1921 in Sussex, England, where she also spent her early school years. She was the daugther of Arthur Robins, a corn broker on the Baltic Exchange and of the popular romance author Denise Robins, who after their divorce, remarried with O'Neill Pearson. Patricia has two sisters, Anne and Eve. She comes from an artistic family, numbering musicians, writers and painters. Her maternal grandfather was Herman Klein, a musician and her maternal grandmother was the writer Kathleen Clarice Groom. Her maternal uncle was Adrian Cornwell-Clyne, who wrote books on photography and cinematography, another uncle was an artist, as is her daughter. Patricia beg…
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