Daughters of Cornwall is a multi-layered time-slip. This book grabbed my interested from the beginning when in the present-day Caroline receives an old trunk sent to her from Penang. As she looks through the personal effects, she slowly discovers the stories behind the women in her family who came before her.

In 1918 we meet Clara, a girl with a less than perfect childhood who is determined to make something of herself when she falls in love with Bertie a man from a loving family in Cornwall during the First World War. Then there’s Hannah, Clara’s daughter who was brought back from her home in Penang with her brother Edward to live with their grandparents in Cornwall. She has her own struggles growing up and as the Second World War begins she has to discover what she wants out of life and how to deal with what’s thrown at her.

Through these interwoven stories secrets and heartbreak are revealed and we discover exactly what did happen to these women and why they made the choices they did. I love historical fiction and was rivetted by this beautifully descriptive book.

Thanks to HarperCollins and NetGalley for an ARC copy of Daughters of Cornwall in return for an honest review.