Deaf since infancy, Nellie had a secret so huge that is amused her.

Across the road at number 1, Nellie Hulme, trapped in a world of silence, watched the other two Saturday girls. So Beth was delighted when a personable man began to court Magsy. This was, after all, the 20th century, gone were the days when a woman stayed at home to mind her family. Beth, however, wanted the normal life a brother, a sister, a stepfather who might make her wonderful mother happy. Her goal was simple- Beth would become a doctor. Nothing was to divert her from her gruelling schedule. Pursued by men who admired her great beauty, she was determined to remain a widow. Magsy O'Gara, her husband killed in the way, plodded through her daily routine as a hospital cleaner, dedicating all her spare time to Beth, her genius daughter. Saturday's child works hard for a living And so they did three females, one born in the 19th century, two in the 20th, each a worker, each driven by that unseen hand which shapes destiny, every one of them born on a Saturday.

Saturday's Child by Ruth Hamilton