![]() ![]() Morgan convalesces in the Turret Room, a room that Rebecca has previously been forbidden to visit. Gwilym is deeply grateful and he vows to repay Geoffrey one day. A traumatised Morgan turns up at Tredelerch and Geoffrey and Rebecca take him in. Talk turns to the cholera epidemic and Gwilym discusses his brother Morgan Llewellyn, a doctor working with patients overseas. Geoffrey belittles Rebecca during a luncheon and Reece Lyons (20), a poor meteorological student, comes to her rescue. ![]() ![]() Geoffrey, who has a passion for the railways, invests further in the American railroads despite warnings from Gwilym Llewellyn, his friend and business advisor. Rebecca then gives birth to their son, John. However the death of friend Janey Stone in childbirth brings the couple closer together. She becomes pregnant then angers him by telling him she will withdraw from sexual relations until after the birth. Naïve, shy Rebecca was eager to marry but soon discovers she lacks desire for her new husband. They live in Tredelerch, his beautiful home in Cardiff which is also a local weather station. Rebecca (21) has just married meteorologist and businessman Geoffrey de Roussier (40). It is narrated in the first-person by the main protagonist Rebecca de Roussier. Further themes are meteorology, railways, poverty and childbearing. Set in South Wales in the late Victorian era, it focuses on a young woman’s struggles with love and passion. ![]() This novel is in the genre of romantic historical fiction. ![]()
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