When One Door Closes

When one door closes, another may open, but the future is never certain.

In the Northumberland market town of Alnwick, at the close of the nineteenth century, young Hannah Robson has been betrayed by her baby's father and disowned by her own. Can her hope for a brighter future endure as she fights against prejudice to raise her son, who later struggles to find a life away from the ghosts that haunt him in the aftermath of the Great War? Meanwhile, his estranged father strives to reconcile his actions, which have not only divided the Robson family, but have caused tension within his own.

Spanning two world wars, and set in Alnwick, the mining community of North Walbottle in Newcastle's West End, the Northumberland coast, Surrey Hills and Scottish Borders, this is a family saga of love, loyalty, loss, and the ties that bind through every generation.