Echo of Another Time - Audrey Howard

Celie Marlow begins working in the Latimers kitchen when she is only ten, learning her art from kindly Mrs Harper. By the age of eighteen, she has become a talented cook.

Celie knows her place, and longs only to run a kitchen as skilfully as her mentor. Until she falls in love with the wrong man: Richard Latimer, eldest son of the house. And all their lives change with frightening swiftness.

Driven from her home, Celie finds unexpected success in a new venture with Mrs Harper – then loses everything once more. Thrown on to the streets of Liverpool, penniless and desperate, she will have to find her own way.