Freda Lightfoot

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  • Bibliography:
    56 Books (6 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1991
  • Latest Book:
    August 2019
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Full Series List in Order

Champion Street Market

1 - Putting on the Style (Feb-2006)
2 - Fools Fall in Love (Oct-2006)
3 - That'll Be The Day (Nov-2011)
4 - Candy Kisses (Aug-2007)
5 - Who's Sorry Now? (May-2008)
6 - Lonely Teardrops (Nov-2009)

Luckpenny Land

1 - Luckpenny Land (Aug-2010)
2 - Storm Clouds Over Broombank (Aug-2010)
3 - Wishing Water (Dec-1995)
4 - Larkrigg Fell (Aug-2010)

Marguerite de Valois

1 - The Hostage Queen (Jun-2010)
The Reluctant Queen (Jan-2011)

Polly's Journey

1 - Polly's Pride (Sep-2013)
2 - Polly's War (Sep-2000)

Poor House Lane Saga

1 - The Girl from Poor House Lane (May-2004)
2 - The Child From Nowhere (Apr-2011)
3 - The Woman from Heartbreak House (Nov-2005)

Salford Saga

1 - Ruby McBride (Nov-2002)
2 - The Favourite Child (Nov-2001)
3 - The Castlefield Collector (Aug-2019)

Book List in Order: 56 titles

  • Outrageous Fortune

    Wilful and beautiful, Charlotte Forbes is to inherit a fortune on her eighteenth birthday. But Sir James Caraddon, the rising star of Pitt's government, informs her of a scandal lurking in her past. Charlotte escapes by joining a troupe of strolling ...

  • Wishing Water

    Luckpenny Land - 3

    Will her desire for love have disastrous consequences?Lissa Turner has everything a girl could wish for. She’s beautiful, intelligent and has a wonderful family in the beautiful Lake District. Despite her good fortune though, Lissa is not happy. He...

  • Lakeland Lily

    When tragedy strikes, she must find a new path…Lily Thorpe is spirited, ambitious and desperate to escape the poverty of her Lake District home, and marry her secret sweetheart Dick Rawlins. But tragedy strikes and Dick is killed in a boating accid...

  • Love Alters Not

    Despite her passion for photography, twenty-five-year-old Abigail Carter feels life must have more to offer than being companion to Mrs Emilia Goodenough, and standing in loco parentis to her firvolous younger sister Polly....

  • Manchester Pride

    Polly Pride lives with her protestant husband Matthew and their two children in the poor part of Manchester. Despite money worries they are happy, but when Matthew loses his job, Polly decides she must do her bit to keep the family from starvation. S...

  • Rhapsody Creek

    Bear is playing on the beach and, seeing the seagulls wheeling above him, decides that he would love to learn how to fly. And there are four children with him who know exactly how to make that happen.


    An exhilarating story about frie...

  • Wine and Roses

    Penniless and alone in the world, Coriander knows that life must have more to offer than drudgery in a Cornish orphanage and fending off the unwelcome advances of unscrupulous Ezra Follett. As though in answer to her prayers, Ralph Beringer, newly re...

  • A Woman Beyond Price

    From the moment James informs Charlotte of her inheritance, his life is turned upside down. Despite their dislike, they are thrown together time after time as he is forced to protect her from unsavoury characters who have an eye on her wealth, and ha...

  • Polly's War

    Polly's Journey - 2

    Will she lose everything she’s worked so hard for?The Second World War may be over, but the war in Polly Pride’s home is only just beginning, and it will test her like never before.Her son, Benny, never seems to be far from trouble, spending all ...



  • A Timeless Union

    When the Honourable Felicity Travers discovers that her late father had arranged a marriage for her, she considers this stretched duty a little too much to ask. For one thing, she is expected to marry Jarle Blakely, the man she believes to be respons...

  • The Favourite Child

    Salford Saga - 2

    Where there’s daring, there’s danger…Isabella Ashton has always been her father’s favourite, but when she gets involved with the new Birth Control Movement, he is scandalised. A decade has elapsed since the end of the Great War and running a ...

  • Gracie's Sin

    War puts their friendship to the test, but can they unite against their true enemy? It’s 1942 and Gracie is eager to do her bit for the war effort. She joins the Women’s Timber Corps, relieved to get away from her quarrelling, interferi...

  • Ruby McBride

    Salford Saga - 1

    Where there’s a rulebook, there’s a rebel…Ruby McBride has always been on the wrong side of authority. The grand opening of the Manchester Ship Canal is set to be a day of unfettered festivity for Ruby and her younger sister and brother. Even Q...

  • Daisy's Secret

    An old secret is about to be uncovered… Daisy is devastated when her lover, Percy, abandons her. All alone, Daisy is forced by her own mother to give up her baby son for adoption â€" shortly before she throws Daisy out. War is imminent, a...

  • The Bobbin Girls

    She must decide if her childhood sweetheart is worth the struggle… Alena Townsen is in love with Rob and wants to spend the rest of her life with him. But he is the only son of James Hollinthwaite, a wealthy landowner who has hi...

  • Dancing on Deansgate

    Where there’s community, there’s courage…Jess Delaney has always longed for independence. But when the Blitz reaches Manchester, she is locked in the cellar by her feckless mother, Lizzie. As bombs rain down from a sky turned blood red with fla...

  • Kitty Little

    Against the backdrop of the theatre, a real life drama plays out… After fleeing from a marriage arranged by her ambitious mother, Katherine throws herself into an acting career, but a scandal threatens to wreck everything she has worked f...

  • The Girl from Poor House Lane

    Poor House Lane Saga - 1

    How far will a mother go to protect her child?The slums of Poor House Lane are no place to bring up a child, and Kate O'Connor struggles to make ends meet when her beloved husband is killed, leaving her a single mother with a baby to support on the m...

  • Watch for the Talleyman

    Dolly Tomkins knows what it's like to live hand to mouth. In the mean streets of 1920s Salford, the only one making a decent living is the talleyman -- and Niffy Jack has a moneybag where his heart should be. When Jack offers to wipe the slate clean ...



  • For All Our Tomorrows

    Can true love conquer all?Sisters Bette Tredinnick and Sara Marrack live quiet lives, content with the comings and goings of their small Cornish hometown. But when hundreds of US Marines arrive, everything changes.Bette, footloose and fancy free, emb...

  • The Woman from Heartbreak House

    Poor House Lane Saga - 3

    What will life bring now The Great War is over? The Great War is over and Kate is ready to welcome back Eliot with open arms. But her husband is a changed man. Kate has become used to her independence, and Eliot's return creates tensions both at work...

  • Putting on the Style

    Champion Street Market - 1

    Bargains galore and life in the raw…Folk are just emerging from the shadow of WWII and money is still tight. So the vibrant market of Champion Street is a source of many a tempting bargain â€" as well as all the local gossip.Dena loves her Saturday...

  • Fools Fall in Love

    Champion Street Market - 2

    Home is where you hang your hat…When Patsy talks her way into a job on the Champion Street Market millinery stall, the Higginson sisters get more than they bargained for.Riddled with insecurities, Patsy’s impudence wins her new enemies as well as...

  • Candy Kisses

    Champion Street Market - 4

    Chocolate can also be bitter…It is a truth universally acknowledged that everyone dotes on Aunty Dot, as much as they do on her homemade sweets. The plump, smiling woman has provided a loving home for many a troubled child over the years, and Lizzi...

  • Who's Sorry Now?

    Champion Street Market - 5

  • House of Angels

    The Lake District, 1908.It seems as though Livia, Ella and Maggie Angel lead a charmed life on a large country estate. But since the death of their mother, their family home has been far from a quiet haven as their bullying father is determined to ma...

  • Lonely Teardrops

    Champion Street Market - 6

    Blood is thicker than water…It’s a rainy day on Champion Street as Harriet attends the funeral of her beloved father. But then her grandmother drops a bombshell on her out of nowhere and she can hardly take in the words for shock and grief.Joyce,...

  • The Hostage Queen

    Marguerite de Valois - 1

    Marguerite de Valois, the most beautiful woman in the French Court, is the subject of great intrigue. She loves Henri of Guise, but is married off to Henry of Navarre, which -- her mother hopes -- will bring peace to the realm. But, within days, the ...

  • Madeiran Legacy

    Just returned from the Napoleonic wars Raul Beringer discovers that as well as contending with the enmity of his younger brother, Maynard, the legacy of his late father's wine business in Madeira must be shared with a penniless orphan, Coriander May....



  • A Proud Alliance

    When the Honourable Felicity Travers discovers that her late father has arranged a marriage for her, she considers this stretches duty a little too far. For one thing, she is expected to marry Jarle Blakely, the man she believes to be responsible for...

  • Whispering Shadows

    Abigail Carter feels stifled as companion to Emilia Goodenough, and the responsibility of her wayward sister Polly. Then Emilia's nephew, Carl Montegne, sweeps the ladies off to Italy to help him search for the long lost family fortune. But even a ro...

  • Larkrigg Fell

    Luckpenny Land - 4

    When her life is thrown into disarray, can she remember what matters most? Beth Brandon and her twin sister, Sarah, are polar opposites in every way, except in their love of their home, Larkrigg Hall. Beth is the romantic one, with dreams o...

  • Luckpenny Land

    Luckpenny Land - 1

    Can she overcome her family’s doubts to achieve her dream?Meg Turner has a hard life. She lives on a lonely farm in the Lake District and her only company is her bully of a father and her brother, who resents her. They want to keep her at home, but...

  • Storm Clouds Over Broombank

    Luckpenny Land - 2

    As she struggles to find her feet with her work, new problems emerge… Meg Turner is finally doing the job she loves, but life as a sheep farmer proves tougher than she anticipated. She is a woman trying to prove herself in a man’s world against t...

  • Angels at War

    Two years have passed since Livia and her sisters were made to suffer the harsh brutality of their corrupt father and finally all seems well in the Lake District: Livia is set to marry the handsome and caring Jack Flint who longs to settle down and s...

  • The Reluctant Queen

    Marguerite de Valois

    Sixteenth-century France. Gabrielle d’Esrées’ one wish is to marry for love, but her mother sells her as a mistress to three different men before she catches the eye--and the heart--of Henry of Navarre, King of France. Henry promises to marry he...

  • Trapped

    I was engaged with the story from page one. She piles horror on horror â€" rape, torture, sexual humiliation, incest, suicide - but she keeps you reading!Historical Novels Review Nov 2009 on House of Angelsa fascinating, richly detailed setting with ...

  • The Child From Nowhere

    Poor House Lane Saga - 2

    As the Great War looms, will the women of Kendal rise to meet the challenge?After giving birth to her daughter, Kate O’Connor finds herself back in Poor House Lane with some momentous decisions to make.Faced with the opportunity to move out of the ...

  • A Sackful of Stories



  • The Promise

    San Francisco, 1904. Georgia Briscoe is unwillingly betrothed to businessman Drew Kemp when she falls for handsome British sailor Ellis Cowper. Drew has the charm to dazzle everyone around him, but once the couple are married, it transpires that Drew...

  • That'll Be The Day

    Champion Street Market - 3

    Flowers spill everyone's secrets…Working on their busy flower stall in Champion Street Market, Lynda and her mother, Betty, have lots of opportunities to observe their customers and speculate about their lives.Sam regularly buys bouquets for his wi...

  • The Queen and the Courtesan

    Henriette d’Entragues isn’t satisfied with simply being the mistress of Henry IV of France; she wants a crown too. Despite his promises to marry her, the King is obliged by political necessity to ally himself with a rich Italian princess. But Hen...

  • My Lady Deceiver

    1905. Rosie Belsfield feels as if her life has ended when she is rejected from Ellis Island and put on the next boat back to England, leaving her family behind. But fate gives her a second chance when she befriends Lady Rosalind, a pregnant widow on ...

  • The Duchess of Drury Lane

    Passion, jealousy, scandal and betrayal -- a true-life Regency Romance of the rise and fall of an extraordinary woman born into extraordinary times. Growing up in a poverty-stricken, fatherless household, Dorothy Jordan overcame her humble beginnings...

  • Cup Cake Coffee Break

  • Polly's Pride

    Polly's Journey - 1

    From Sunday Times bestselling author, Freda Lightfoot. From brief riches to rural rags and ruin…

    1920s, Manchester. Living in the deprived area of Ancoats area of Manchester Polly Pride feels more fortunate than most until her husband Matt...

  • Lady of Passion

    Beautiful and talented actress, poet and fashion icon, Mary Robinson was one of the most famous women of her time -- yet she died virtually penniless, her reputation in ruins. For Mary was destined always to be betrayed by the men she loved, whether...

  • The Amber Keeper

    After her mother’s suicide, Abbie Myers returns home to the Lake District with her young child―and no wedding ring. Estranged from her turbulent family for many years, Abbie is heartbroken when she hears that they blame her for this tragedy. D...

  • Home Is Where The Heart Is

    1945. Finally, peace has been declared. Cathie hardly dares believe that Alex, the fiancé she has not seen for nearly two years, is coming home. And, finally, life can begin again for Cathie and the orphaned baby in her care.But the Alex who returns...



  • Witchchild

    Lady Rowanna Blamire, the spirited and much cherished daughter of a Royalist has lived for much of her life in Yorkshire because of a family feud, about which she knows little. But now her grandfather has died, her Parliamentarian uncle, Carus Blamir...

  • Forgotten Women

    It is 1936 and Spain is on the brink of civil war. Across Europe, young men are enlisting in the International Brigade to free their Spanish brethren from the grip of fascism, leaving sisters and lovers at home. But not all women are content to be...

  • Always In My Heart

    Brenda Stuart returns to her late husband’s home devastated by his loss only to find herself accused of bestowing favours upon the Germans. Life has been difficult for her over the war, having been held in an internment camp in France simply becaus...

  • Peace In My Heart

    Sunday Times bestselling author Freda Lightfoot is back with a heartwarming story of life after the war.

    She must keep her family together…

    The war is over and Evie Talbert eagerly awaits the return of her three children from their ...

  • Summer Time Shorts

  • Girls of the Great War

    She wanted a new life. Now she’s risking it to save others. Cecily Hanson longs to live life on her own terms -- to leave the shadow of her overbearing mother and marry her childhood sweetheart once he returns from the Great War. But when her fi...

  • The Castlefield Collector

    Salford Saga - 3

    Where there’s muck, there’s mettle…Dolly Tomkins has always known what it is to live hand to mouth. In the mean streets of a Salford struggling under the mantle of the Great Depression, the only one making a decent living is the talleyman.Thoug...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Freda Lightfoot has published 56 books.

Freda Lightfoot does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Castlefield Collector, was published in August 2019.

The first book by Freda Lightfoot, Outrageous Fortune, was published in February 1991.

Yes. Freda Lightfoot has 6 series.
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