Hannah, May and Eleanor are sisters whose early life in Dublin with their middle-class parents has prepared them for a comfortable future of marriage, children and servants. Further north, Maria and Cecilia are also sisters, struggling to make a …
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Hannah, May and Eleanor are sisters whose early life in Dublin with their middle-class parents has prepared them for a comfortable future of marriage, children and servants. Further north, Maria and Cecilia are also sisters, struggling to make a …
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High above the river stood the small terrace of miners' cottages known as Fenwick Houses. Here, during the hazardous years of the Depression, lived Christine Winter, a girl blessed - or cursed - with that indefinable appeal that drives men to the …
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Set in the end of the Second World War, a young man, blinded in action and a decorated war hero, returns home and strives to put his life back in order the best way he can.
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As a striking and independent young woman studying to be a teacher in York, Amelia is looking for a purpose in life, and hopes to get to know the two young gentlemen who have travelled from Australia to meet her family. However, she soon finds …
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For Katherine Donovan the slums of Dublin are a lonely place. Her father, a pawnbroker, is the most hated man in the district, and Katherine an outcast. Her only friend is tiny Ceppi Healy, underfed, irrepressible and, the youngest in a neglected …
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Befriended by Ned Hawkes and his mother, Nell, Clemency struggles to escape from life in the slums of Stew Lane. She finds work with a troupe of buskers run by Augustus Throop. Clemency looks set for operatic stardom, but a chance meeting with …
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The third in The Hungary Tide series. Set in the late 1850s, a baby is bought to the Rayner family home. The family assume the child is James's, not Gilbert's, who is on the verge of marriage. This signals a family furore and disaster begins to …
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Jacaranda Vines had been one of the wealthiest corporations in Australia. Now Joseph Witney, the tyrannical head of the family is dead, and Jacaranda Vines is at crisis point. Joseph's widow, Cordelia, is determined not to sell. If she can …
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Crippled by polio, young Winnie Molloy has little to look forward to in life. Her father, Trevor, adores her but she is neglected by her feckless mother, Grace. When war comes Trevor Molloy is called up. He fears for Winnie and persuades Sandy …
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Lieutenant-Commander Alan Powell, unfit for active service after being wounded in action, is overseeing undercover operations in that part of the West Country, and he and Duval find themselves in dangerous circumstances. Alan, lonely and …
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Can Susan escape the dark shadows of her childhood...? Born into the squalor of the notorious Ash-Pits, young Susan Lucket is determined to raise herself above the poverty of her childhood. Discovering she has a natural talent for nursing, she …
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As the 19th century unfolds, the bloody war against Napoleon continues. For the Morland family, private problems mirror the turmoil around them. The happiness of James and Heloise is threatened by his rebellious daughter Fanny, who is determined …
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After years of neglect by her mother, when her father comes home from sea and sets up as a carrier at the Liverpool Docks, Patsy dreams of being a proper family again. But when her father is killed in an accident and her mother returns to her …
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As Lydia Fielding grows up, she finds herself attracted to two men in her Exmoor village: handsome, ambitious Gus Pascoe who wants her father's land and Wesley Peters, a strict Methodist with a terrible secret. But a scandal between Lydia's …
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It's been a good few years since Molly and Bernie left their native Ireland, and settled in Liverpool. Now, they're both being courted by fine young men, and the future looks bright. But, 1945 is rapidly approaching, and soon war is changing …
It is 1942, and after a tough childhood in Birmingham, Maryann Bartholomew has built a happy life with her husband and children working the canals on a narrowboat. But hard work and constant child bearing take their toll, and the death of a …
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Finally he is discovered and must flee, to Maria's uncle in Birmingham, who sets Barney up with a prime job at Dunlops. All too soon Barney's old habits re-emerge and he's sacked, while causing family havoc. It's the children who suffer, and one …