Kirkowen's Daughter

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Evicted by mine owner Hamish McClure, Peggy's mother dies giving birth to her in a barn on a bitter winter night in 1880, leaving her father to rear her the best he can...Hamish McClure is furious when his own wife has a baby girl, Elspeth - and not the son and heir he was hoping for. Worse still, she is disfigured by a port-wine stain on her face...Elspeth and Peggy grow up worlds apart. Yet, in an age when it is difficult for women to enter the profession, they both decide to pursue a career in medicine - and find themselves bound by a friendship that not only transcends all barriers, but sustains them through love affairs, heartbreak and war...