The Stony Path

Growing up on a small, struggling farm on the outskirts of Sunderland in the early 1900s, Polly Farrow has a tough life, but she has gifts money cant buy a joyful disposition and a loving heart. And her heart belongs to her beloved cousin, Michael. Polly knows that one day theyll be man and wife. But a terrible secret is to change everything: Michael is her half-brother, the fruit of an incestuous relationship between her father and his own sister Michaels mother. The lovers are rent apart and Polly is left to bear the responsibility of the farm alone for her father kills himself, unable to live with his shame. Life is now a battle for survival, and Polly wonders if she will ever find happiness. But the answer to her prayers is closer than she thinks...