CATHERINE COOKSON - Justice Is A Woman

Joe Remington's home just outside the Tyneside town of Fellburn was virtually another country for his new bride, Elly, and her capacity for rubbing up local people the wrong way made her increasingly unpopular. Elly's early pregnancy was to be made bearable only by the willingness of her unmarried sister, Betty, to come and see her through her confinement - but would Betty's presence only widen the rift between husband and wife, or would she help to bring about reconciliation?