Mary Gray

Mary Gray tends to her younger siblings in the shadow of a great church, in a house where her father's watchmaking provides barely enough for the family that has grown too large since the stepmother arrived. She is sixteen, tired, and uncomplaining, the kind of girl who does not know she deserves more. When she throws herself in front of a tram to save a lady's dog, she breaks her arm and changes everything. Lady Anne Hamilton, grateful and intrigued by this fierce little creature from Wistaria Terrace, begins to pull Mary toward a world she has only glimpsed through shop windows. This is a novel about the quiet heroism of girls who keep households running and the fragile possibility that someone might see them, truly see them, and offer another way.