Days of Grace — Brenda Jagger

Olivia Herons vagrant Parisian childhood ended on the day her brother died. Now, as heiress to Clarrow Fell, Olivia brings her delightful, frivolous mother and her sisters home to Yorkshire - and to a different world. The elegant salons, the shabby lodgings, are replaced by the grim and alien grandeur of the moors and the mill towns. Olivia will inherit the land and the traditions she has come to love. But first she must check the ambitions of her wealthy cousin Max Charming, sophisticated and ruthless, Max makes no secret of his desire to be master of Charrow Fell - and of Olivia too...

Then outside influences and other people begin to disturb her perfect future, set against the horrors of the Boer War, the frivolity of the Edwardian era, the suffragette movement, and the final period of the British empire, and the brutality and humiliation of the suffragettes and the uncertain future that dawns in January 1914.