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Miss Appleby's Academy by Elizabeth Gill (view source)
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After forsaking her own chance of happiness to care for her aging ageing father, Emma Appleby’s life is thrown into turmoil when he dies suddenly, leaving her fate entirely in the hands of her callous brother Laurence. Laurence and his wife view the middle-aged spinster as a burden and are keen to marry her off to an elderly neighbour to free themselves of responsibility. With seemingly nowhere to turn, Emma flees America to make a new life for herself in her childhood home of County Durham.
Life in the Northern mining town is far from idyllic and the suspicious townsfolk shun the outsider, suspecting her to be a whore. Emma is given a lifeline by charitable publican Mick Castle, but he has problems of his own; an alcoholic young wife and a wayward daughter who keeps running away.