Another of my historical novels is now available on Kindle. A Drink for the Bridge was first published by Macmillan back in 1976.
Here’s a summary of the plot: Sunday, December 28, 1879 was a cruel and tragic date in Scottish history. Of the 75 train passengers who plunged to their death when the Tay Bridge fell only 25 were recovered from the river's murky depths. Among the characters lost, or who by a stroke of fate missed the train, were those whose lives were changed for ever. In this cross section of Victorian society, from the wealthy Clara Thoms, whose only concern was that her dinner party had been ruined by this inconvenience, to the poor servant lass Rosie, an unmarried mother with a crippled daughter who lives on the other side of the River Tay. Then there is Emily, middle-aged spinster with her fantasies involving the local doctor, whose daughter is forbidden to marry a gypsy lad. And big Nessie a medium who foresees a terrible calamity that she cannot interpret...
What does destiny hold for them? Who will board the ill-fated train and who will await its arrival in vain only to know sorrow and heartbreak?
