Kate Hannigan & The Long Corridor

Kate Hannigan. Dr Rodney Prince's desire for a family had been frozen out by a wife who'd wanted Harley Street, not a Tyneside slum. By contrast, Kate Hannigan glowed with a warmth that was out of place in the grime and squalor of the Fifteen Streets. And so, between Rodney Prince, a wealthy man locked in an unhappy marriage, and Kate Hannigan, a bastard child of the slums, grew a love that opposed all the concepts of an Edwardian society...
The Long Corridor. To outsiders, Dr Paul Higgins's life appeared to be happy and contented. But the façade that Paul and his wife Bett presented to the world concealed a welter of hate that had grown worse with the passing years. They led their separate lives -- until Bett decided to allow her spite and resentment to culminate in revenge on the husband she did not love...