![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When a devastating earthquake strikes San Francisco and Belinda goes into labor, their plans prove futile. She has also begun to have sexual relations with Martin, although she knows that there is no love between them. Over the next few months, Sophie, who is unable to have children of her own, grows to love Kat and brings her out of her shell. Meanwhile, Kat, who believes that her mother Candace’s death from tuberculosis is somehow her fault, is traumatized into silence. ![]() While Martin is handsome and respects her wish to sleep in separate bedrooms until they get to know each other, he is also aloof and travels for long periods of time. Sophie eagerly travels to San Francisco and looks forward to making a new start with widowed Martin and his five-year-old daughter Kat in a beautiful new home on Polk Street. When she encounters Martin Hocking’s advertisement for a wife and mother in The New York Times, it seems like a form of salvation. Instead, Sophie finds herself living in a tenement building and working in an umbrella factory with a surplus of Irish immigrant girls just like her. Twenty-year-old Sophie Whalen’s mother hoped that New York would offer her a fresh start after poverty and infamy in Donaghadee, Northern Ireland. ![]()
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