Total Commitment [Hardcover]

Elizabeth Waite (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 1, 2008

A poignant family saga - Paula O'Brien wants to escape her family and start afresh, but she is scared of defying her abusive father. However, when she sees a newspaper advert for a live-in nanny her best friend Laura persuades her to apply. When Jeffrey Lawson, grieving for his beloved wife who died during childbirth, invites Paula to an interview, she doesn't realize it will change her life for ever . . .

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

Paula O’Brien, 19, is determined to leave home and take control of her destiny, but her father has made her life a nightmare. In 1924, when she was 13, her parents sent her to an asylum near London that was filled with society’s unwanted, from prostitutes to the mentally challenged to unwed mothers such as herself. When she was finally allowed to come home, her father controlled every aspect of her life. Her good friend Laura was her salvation. Now it will take every ounce of fortitude she possesses to leave, but Paula has found a live-in position as a nursemaid to twin babies. Try as she might to create a new life for herself, she cannot escape the past, nor can she remember how she got pregnant. Friends, and her employer, handsome widower Jeffrey, help her in her quest to find the answers to all her uncertainties and fears in Waite’s moving saga of overcoming the past so one can look forward. --Maria Hatton

Product Details

• Hardcover: 332 pages
• Publisher: Severn House Publishers (December 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0727866842
• ISBN-13: 978-0727866844
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,184,772 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)