In this shattering novel set in Nazi-occupied France, Jacqueline Yallop tells an unforgettable story of collaboration, betrayal, illicit love, faith and desire.

Ellie Barton has spent her young life living in the dilapidated manor house with her elderly father. Her duty is to her aristocratic lineage, something of which she is often reminded by those few people around her. But Marlford, the local village founded by her grandfather, is in decay - subsidence from the old salt mines is destroying the buildings, the books in the memorial library are mouldering, and old loyalties and assumptions are shifting. When two idealistic young men decide to squat in the closed wing of the house, they show her a world much wider than Marlford, and Ellie begins to...

A history of one of the most enduring experiments of Victorian philanthropy -- the 'model' village.
Twenty years ago, Jacqueline Yallop began her working life leading guided walks at a small village high in the fells of the North Pennines. Built by philanthropic employers for families working the lead mines, the isolated settlement was one of a network of 'model' villages which sprang up across Britain during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
In Dreamstreets, Yallop visits, and re-visits, some of these utopian experiments to explore their rich histories and to...