The Water's Edge

The third in the saga that began with The Broken Bough and The Blackbird’s Song ...In May 1926, Peg Hallam, a successful young reporter working in London, is an enthusiastic supporter of the General Strike which is crippling the country. She is engaged to Alan, a fellow journalist and socialist who has long admired her, but whom she is not quite sure she loves.On the picket line outside her employer’s newspaper offices Peg unexpectedly bumps into Hubert Ryland, heir to Lord Ryland, on whose Dorset estate Peg’s family lives. Under such dramatic circumstances the long-suppressed attraction between the two young people is reawakened, and Peg can no longer deny her feelings.As Peg’s personal drama unfolds, the repercussions on both the Hallam and Ryland families are profound. But Peg’s sisters Verity and Addie are not without problems of their own, and there is a new generation of Hallams – their half-siblings Ed and Stella – whose loves, dreams and ambitions will soon take centre stage ...