Morgan's Woman — Iris Gower

Set in South Wales at the turn of the century, Catherine Preece - young, courageous, lonely, and desperate for love - is trying to run a South Wales hill-farm single-handed, and to support the husband she never loved, now crippled and embittered after the Great War. Into this explosive situation comes an attractive man who has lost his fiancee.Morgan Lloyd is looking for work and comes to Ram's Tor to help Catherine. Gradually they become attracted to each other which incurs the wrath of Catherine's husband and the hatred and contempt of the whole town.