In the slush and fog of January, Elspeth runs away from a Midland town and 'the aunts' to the funny little cottage called 'The Hopper's House', which a friend had offered to her. Small, prim, but unusual, Elspeth arrives late at n...
The blow of her father's death falls all the harder on Lindsay MacClane Lee, for she had been used to the best things of life, and he dies leaving her practically penniless. She is left to face the bitter struggle of life with the additional resp...
Susan and her best friend Aggie are living in a London bedsitter and watching their hoarded savings quickly diminish when Susan spots the advertisement asking for help setting up a boarding house in the country for anglers. We are quickly transported...
Heth has the wrong identity papers, and now a foreign name. The police are anxious to question her. She becomes a fugitive and hides on a border farm. Spy rumours start, and even the handsome Drem wonders. But Vi,an old flame of his, seems certain of...
Set in the Border country where the Cheviots and Lammermuirs meet, this book tells of the Gow family, now almost extinct but for the fragile, stubborn Jane, her grandfather Walter Gow and her miserly old grand-aunt Janet. Both the old people are anxi...