Kitty Canham
Love, loss and necessary lies.
A woman had to be strong to make her way in the eighteenth century.
Kitty is her parent’s only surviving child. The life she has always known is changing. She fights to make her own way, but withheld truths and the conventions of the age conspire against her.
Through an unexpected invitation she finds herself amidst London society. There she becomes the keeper of a secret, which leads her into a deception of her own. She seeks to live a conventional life, but when tragedy strikes, misunderstandings follow. She keeps her secret close, but the time will come when she can keep it no longer.
This is a fictional story woven around real life events that began in Beaumont-cum-Moze on the North Essex coast.
The landscape in which I live is where Kitty walked 300 years before me. It was this that inspired the writing.



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