Beyond The Touch Of Time — Patricia Keyson

A Victorian locket links four stories together, spanning across decades. An aristocrat falls in love with his maid, and heartbreak lies ahead. During World War Two, best friends Barbara and Doreen experience closeness but also jealousy. A young single mother in the 1960s is given the locket, but traumatic events ensue after she casts it aside. And in the present day, Rachel discovers the locket at a car boot sale and wonders about the past of her new talisman, as well as what kind of future it might bring her.