The redemption of Galen Pike and other stories

In a remote Australian settlement, a young wife with an untellable secret reluctantly invites her neighbour into her home.

A Quaker spinster offers companionship to a condemned murderer in a Colorado jail.

A tourist, mistaken for a god, finds his position questioned by the beautiful maid sent to look after him.

In the ice and snows of Siberia an office employee from Birmingham witnesses a scene that will change her life.

At a jubilee celebration in a northern English town, a middle-aged alderman opens his heart to Queen Victoria.

High in the Cumbrian fells, a woman seeks help from her father's enemy.