Treasures on Earth — Jessica Stirling

Scotland 1791: on a wild November night, highlander Gaddy Paterson strays into the staid lowland parish of Balnesmoor, and stumbles on a dead girl and her abandoned baby. Gaddy adopts the child but when she falls in with the ageing Col Conran in her hour of need the result is scandal and outrage and her baby daughter. She struggles to scrape a living for herself and in her struggle against the hatred of the village, she uncovers their long-hidden secrets.