Hannah's Wharf Author:Connie Monk When thirteen-year-old Hannah is left an orphan, she is sent to Devon to live with an aunt she has never met. But Aunt Louise is not fond of children, and Hannah suffers appalling loneliness. In time, though, she develops an interest in the family shipping business and sets about learning all she can. — However, the laws of Victorian England are ... more »strict with regard to property. Hannah may well be her aunt's heiress, but it will be Hannah's husband who effectively controls her considerable fortune on Louise's death. And when Hannah falls in love with a charming opportunist, Tommy Webster, she little imagines she will have to fight tooth and nail for everything she has worked so hard to achieve.« less