Gilding the LilyLily and Sarah Brown's childhood is an unhappy one. Sarah escapes by marrying Ralph Turner a Sunderland dock worker but Lily doesn't trust Ralph a dark volatile man with a hidden cruel streak. When he tries to seduce Lily on his wedding day her worst fears are confirmed. Ralph's younger brother John is cut from a different cloth though and Lily is increasingly drawn to him. But just when Lily sees a future for them a terrible incident destroys her

She finances her studies by several jobs at weekends and during the holidays

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But it also makes for an extraordinary range of behaviours

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But could this apparent ‘crime of passion’ have been something more evil and premeditated altogether