Sunday, December 28, 1879 was a cruel and tragic date in Scottish history. Of the 75 train passengers who plunged to their death when the Tay Bridge collapsed only 25 were recovered from the river’s murky depths.
Among the characters lost, or who by a stroke of fate missed the train, were a cross section of Victorian society; from the wealthy Clara Thoms, whose only concern was that her dinner party had been ruined by this inconvenience to the poor servant lass Rosie, an unmarried mother with a crippled daughter living on the other side of the River Tay.
Then there is Emily, middle-aged spinster with her fantasies involving the local doctor, whose daughter is forbidden to marry a gypsy lad.
And big Nessie, a medium who foresees a terrible calamity that she cannot interpret...
What does destiny hold for them?
Who will board the ill-fated train and who will await its arrival in vain only to know sorry and heartbreak?
Please note - this book formerly published on Kindle as ‘A Drink for the Bridge’.
Among the characters lost, or who by a stroke of fate missed the train, were a cross section of Victorian society; from the wealthy Clara Thoms, whose only concern was that her dinner party had been ruined by this inconvenience to the poor servant lass Rosie, an unmarried mother with a crippled daughter living on the other side of the River Tay.
Then there is Emily, middle-aged spinster with her fantasies involving the local doctor, whose daughter is forbidden to marry a gypsy lad.
And big Nessie, a medium who foresees a terrible calamity that she cannot interpret...
What does destiny hold for them?
Who will board the ill-fated train and who will await its arrival in vain only to know sorry and heartbreak?
Please note - this book formerly published on Kindle as ‘A Drink for the Bridge’.
