Snow Hall

1907 County Durham Lorna Robson works long and tiring hours in her aunt's hat shop in a small pit village. Although she tries not to complain the genteel poverty they live in and her lack of freedom depresses her. But when she discovers that a relation has left her a large dilapidated property her aunt is strangely furious. Lorna knows she can never return. However it is only when she sees Snow Hall - and falls in love with it - that her situation truly dawns on her: selling the house is unthinkable but without money or friends how can she survive?