Brocade

the long version

Rachel had to escape, get away to a new life, a new country. She was leaving behind so much misery. Once she had been happy living out in the country with her father and sister. Then her father brought them home a visitor: the woman who was to be his new wife. Soon it became clear that the new wife had married her father for his money. Then Rachel's married the man that Rachel loved. Rachel herself had left home, had married, and had come to realise that she had made a terrible mistake. For a time she clung on, hoping for happiness. But the latest heart-breaking events made her realise that happiness would not come to her. She had to go out to seek it....