Speaker: Jean Renwick

When Elizabeth Addy died in 1849, her grieving husband commemorated her life with a mourning brooch. In The Mourning Brooch Book One An ending. A beginning we learnt how her two young daughters grew up in Yorkshire and married. In The Mourning Brooch Book Two Moving on, this much-loved saga continues and the brooch has a new owner. Fate takes the two Yorkshire sisters in very different directions and we follow them as their children grow and pursue ambitious lives that take them to the United States, the Continent, even Constantinople. From modest terraced houses to opulent stately homes, this family weaves a compelling story of love, loyalty, deceit and scandal as the families, rich and poor, emerge from the Victorian era into the sparkling times of Edwardian Britain and the Golden Age of the USA.