That Monroe Girl

the long version

A stirring saga in the tradition of Meg Hutchinson ... Malise Monroe, a fiery fifteen-year-old, earns herself an education teaching younger children at a Dundee schoolhouse. Her father Gabriel is devoted to improving conditions for workers in the local jute factory, and battles with its owners, the Frasers. Despite sharing her father's beliefs, Malise is attracted to Neil Fraser, the family's younger son, but when she becomes pregnant, Gabriel rushes to avenge her and is killed. At the outbreak of World War I the men of Dundee enlist, but Malise has a fight on her hands when Neil returns from France, for he covets the handsome son that Malise adores ...