Elizabeth Waite

• Apr-1993
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South London, 1932. Times are hard for ten-year old Lizzie Collins and her family. With her father dead, it is up to her mother, grandmother and aunt to scrimp and save to rear Lizzie and her three siblings. But the whole family is blessed with the i...

• Dec-1993
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Patsy Kent is just fourteen when her beloved mother Ellen dies of consumption in November 1918. The pregant but unmarries Ellen had fled her respectable family and landed up in Tooting, desperate to find somewhere to live and a place to work. Thus sh...

• Mar-1995
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Barbara's first chance comes in 1945. A barrister's daughter, she runs away to marry her sailor sweetheart in secret, ignoring her parent's disapproval. When the marriage falls violently apart, she returns home and tries to rebuild her life. Then a s...

• Dec-1995
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Set in wartime London, this is a sequel to "Cockney Waif". Patsy now has a husband and four children, and as the fateful events of September 1939 unfold, London will be shaken by air raids and food shortages, children will be evacuated, and men calle...

• Jun-1996
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• May-1997
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Tooting, 1950: Ruby has always been a worry to her widowed mother Ida - her husband, Brian is violent and she loses her job after allegations of "carrying on" with the manager. When Brian dies suddenly, Ida is quietly relieved, but tragedy continues ...

• Nov-2000
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When Annie's father is killed after being run over by a bus, Annie decides she can't let the two children her father took in as lodgers with their mother (now vanished) be taken into care and inevitably separated. Instead, with the help of her Grandm...

• Nov-2001
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Flame-haired Wimbledon girl Joan Harvey could not have chosen a worse time to fall in love with Matt Pearson. With no end in sight to the Second World War, and Joan discovering she is pregnant, a rushed marriage is her only option, despite her family...

• Mar-2002
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This volume contains two stories from South London - "Skinny Lizzie" and "Nippy". Elizabeth Waite is the author of several other novels including "Cockney Waif", "Second Chance", "Third Time Lucky" and "Kingston Kate"....

• Dec-2002
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When Janey has to leave her home after her stepfather beats her up so badly her mother fears for her safety, she finds herself in a children's home deep in the Sussex countryside. Unused to open space, fields and love she soons settles in and the fri...

• Feb-2003
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KINGSTON KATE - To catch a glimpse of her red hair, sparkling eyes and shapely figure was to think Kate Kearsley, the eighteen-year old daughter of a successful boatyard owner, a very lucky young woman indeed. But she was anything but lucky. Her brot...

• Nov-2004
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Patsy is now living a comfortable life - Eddie's little chain of hotels is thriving, but two of her four children have problems in their marriages - can Patsy help them out? Ellen's husband is physically abusing her. She finally leaves him, s...

• Jan-2005
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When good-for-nothing Bill dies in a fire of his own drunken making, it is a bit of relief for wife Joan. Behind on the rent, scraping a few pennies together for food, at least now she is free from his physical abuse. With the support of sister Marth...

• Jun-2007
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The sleepy Hampshire village where Emma Pearson lives is offering rural holidays to orphaned children from London. Years later, when World War II breaks out, Emma must watch not only her own two girls, but also the boys who are like sons to her, play...

• Dec-2007
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A heart-warming family saga Emma Pearson offered a rural holiday to orphaned John and Tommy in the 1930s, and they become as close as family. Over the years the family stayed in touch, but when World War Two breaks out tragedy strikes when John is ki...

• Dec-2008
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From the author of 'Time Will Tell' and 'A London Lass' comes a poignant family saga about a woman who seeks to escape from the childhood home that brought her misery. When spirited Paula O'Brien leaves home and takes a job as a live-in nanny to wido...

• Apr-2013
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John, Rick, and Derrick Underwood are the most handsome trio of brothers in town and it takes three exceptional women to convince them to settle down. For Jodie, marrying John seemed exciting and romantic at the time but the reality of life is provin...

• Apr-2014
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Linked through marriage to three brothers, the Underwood women prove time and again that they are a force to be reckoned with. Jodie has traveled a hard road to reach her own prosperity, despite her husband's constant unreliability, yet she can't bri...

• Dec-2014
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Flame-haired beauty Chloe Collard watched her mother struggle through life, scraping together pennies in order to provide for her and her brothers, so Chloe promised herself something a long time ago: she would get a proper education and make somethi...

• Sep-2015
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Carla Scofield has looked after her family since she was a teenager but it's never been a bother because there isn't anything she wouldn't do for those closest to her. Warm, friendly, and with the ability to make everyone around her laugh, she carrie...

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