The Threads of the Past


Lady Abigail’s secret diaries


Who was Lady Abigail Hampton, and what actually happened 180 years ago? Did she leap to her death after her lover Oliver Rashleigh was hanged for the murder of her brother-in-law George?

When Crown prosecutor Melody Stewart relocates to an old family property, an industrial-era villa called Abigail’s Place, she stumbles across her ancestor’s diaries in a secret chamber. Fascinated, she follows the threads of her past back to the year 1841, to Hampton Hall and the smart, resourceful woman who rebelled against her fate.

  • The first volume in a trilogy about the fates of the strong women of Hampton Hall
  • Romantic and opulent woman’s fiction structured around artfully intertwined time periods
Genre: Fiction, Love / Romance
Felicity Whitmore

Felicity Whitmore has four big passions: England, her cats and dogs, the theatre and creative writing. She regularly travels to England and writes whenever she can find the time. Her bestselling novels often deal with the secrets of old mansions. 

432 pages, ISBN: 978-3-423-21838-2
First published 2020