The Hour of the Angel

Ruth Gordon longed to escape the gruelling poverty of her Lanchestire upbringing, the thwarted dreams of her embittered mother. But it was the horror of her young husband's sudden death and its harrowing aftermath that finally forced her to flee south to London to anonymity and intense loneliness- but also a new life. Intelligent and astute, she rises from usherette to become a highly successful manageress and later owner of a chain of fashionabl...