Frances Radcliffe, a young woman of extraordinary musical talents who was raised by her mother after her father deserted the family, finds herself torn between a handsome musician and her beloved childhood friend...
The story is set in Treddinock in Cornwall in the 1870s, when the dream of every adventurer was to see rich hauls of copper brought up to the surface. Rachel comes to Treddinock as a stranger when John, her husband, takes a partnership in an engineer...
Penelope Drew has a gift - the power to entertain. Despite her father's opposition she organizes a song and dance routine with Tom and the two set out to earn their fortunes. However when the two are separated by war, Penelope has to pursue her dream...
Melissa is the treasured only child of well-to-do widower Clive Rochester. Her mother's grief-stricken family, the Sylvesters, are scandalised when Clive makes impoverished milliner Augusta Hawkesworth his second wife. For Augusta is not only lower c...
A Secret Too Terrible To Tell Dulcie Trenton had risen from the ashes of war, determined to build a new life for herself. Yet the price of survival was high, and could cost her the love of Cal Jermain, whose honesty was as raw and as real as his p...
In the final months of 1945, victory ceases to be a distant dream and for Rhoda Harding and many others, a feeling of hope is in the air. Rhoda is hoping for a change. Married to Alec for more than twenty-five years, she now finds herself reluctant t...
From an ever-popular library author - On the death of her twin brother, divorcee Gillian Sinclair, a career woman bringing up her young daughter Debbie alone, inherits Hunters Lodge, a country hotel. She is determined not to fail her brothers legacy ...
From an ever-popular library author - England, 1926. Sixteen-year-old orphan Jackie Hunt knows what she wants â€" to marry Wilhelm Furtmueller and to be an artist. But she and Wilhelm are to be parted. Jackie finds some solace with the taciturn...
England, 1937. When Georgie Franklyn’s father dies suddenly, leaving a mountain of debt, artistic Georgie accepts James Bartlett’s marriage proposal. But theirs is not a love match, and their tentative relationship is complicated by the presence ...
It is the summer of 1939, and Dennis and Kathie Hawthorne, who run Westways, a village market garden, are utterly content. But when war arrives, Dennis, a member of the TA, is called up immediately, leaving Kathie to engage helpers and run the garden...
In the halcyon days of the 1930s Sebastian Kilbride, a screen idol, and Nick Kennedy, his accountant and financial adviser are close friends, enjoying an almost idyllic lifestyle. The lives of their wives and families are intertwined. Tessa Kilbride,...
Sophie and Lydia Westlake have always been close, and think of each other as sisters, despite the fact that they are really cousins. Sophie has always been the prettier, more light-hearted younger sister, whilst Lydia has grown up in her shadow, and...
Since the death of her parents when she was three years old, Anna Bartlett has lived with her grandfather and his housekeeper at Dunsford House. Growing up in the remote countryside of the Berkshire Downs, Anna leads a sheltered life and has few frie...
When her widowed mother goes to Africa, Tamsin takes a job as secretary to Charles Hardcastle. It is through Charles that Tamsin meets the outspoken suffragette Lucinda and her handsome son Alexander. Alex is determined that nothing will stand in the...
When Tim and Sue Marshall take in a local boarding school boy on their farm, they watch as the shy, bespectacled Quentin changes beyond recognition. As the years go by there are big changes for everyone, Sue sees her family growing up and realizes th...
When a young girl is forced to uproot her city life to work on a farm, she finds unexpected happiness . . . and pain 1955. When nineteen-year-old Tessa Richards’ beloved grandmother dies she is forced to live with her Uncle Richard and Aunt Nao...
1957. An unexpected inheritance from her late aunt gives Louisa Harding the opportunity to move to Lexleigh and set up her own accountancy business. When she ends up delivering her new neighbour Bella's baby during a storm, a strong bond is formed be...
THE FLEETING YEARS is the story of Peter and Zina Marchand, joining them when they have been married some ten years and he is at the height of his career, a film star who is a household name both sides of the Atlantic. At the time of their marriage Z...
When Jane Bradley elopes with one of her father's employees, she soon realizes that she had a romantisized view of married life. When Ian is disappointed with her in more ways than one, Jane finds comfort with the local doctor, who is drawn to her, b...
On a golden summer's morning in 1914, Sophie woke to the joyful realization that it was her wedding day. The youngest child of Justin and Hilda Pickering, she had lived all her life at Minton House, in the Devon village of Otterton St Giles, together...