Wow! Excellent! What a great novel. Evelyn Gifford is young women lawyer in 1924. She is trying to carve out a living as one the first women lawyers. Evelyn while working hard as the sole support of her family must come to terms with death of brother during the war, the mother of his child, a murder case, a love affair and trying to rescue the children of a poor London woman.

McMahon neatly ties all the strands together and creates a compelling story. The characters change and grow throughout the story and ending contains a few deft surprises. This book comes highly recommended. If you like Charles Todd or Anne Perry's World War novels you will this.