ljm57 's review for:

Mrs England by Stacey Halls

3.0

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An easy read which follows the fledgling career of children’s nurse Ruby May as she takes up her position with a wealthy London couple to care for their baby girl. Ruby loves her young charge and is happy in her job but when the family emigrates to Chicago, she reluctantly decides she cannot accompany them so must quickly find another family requiring her services. With great trepidation, but desperate for an income, she accepts a position which sees her travelling to Yorkshire in the far north to care for four children. The year is 1904 and her new employers, the Englands, come from a long line of cotton and mill owners. This paints a rather gloomy and gothic atmosphere in her new home and town, especially when Ruby slowly comes to the realisation that all is not how it should be. A slow burn with an ominous undercurrent of control and threat.