From the early days of her childhood in the Yorkshire Dales, Nell Thorpe learnt through bitter experience that she shouldn't allow herself to become reliant on any man. So when she meets Gregory Nansen on a skiing holiday, she refuses, despite her gr...
Eglantine Thorpe belonged to that generation of women deprived of husbands and lovers by the First World War in which half a million young men were killed. These women were the Maiden Aunts of the century, expected to look after other women's childre...
Who hasn't dreamed of a holiday free of grown-ups and rules? For the Packet children that dream suddenly comes true when their mother's friend Cynthia, who lives in the south of France, offers the family the use of two ancient caravans in a field nea...
Although Polly Adams was only seven when her mother left home, she immediately took responsibility for her younger brother, Jimmy. But she never forgave her mother, whom she had loved and trusted, for abandoning them.When war broke out they were evac...
Dina is searching for a special angel to top her Christmas tree, one that looks like her Japanese, Irish, German, and Mexican sons. Her husband Julio struggles with his disdain of holiday hype. Can this family and their friends come to rediscover wha...
Judith Delany and Alice Dowerthwaite have that rare precious thing - a friendship which overcomes their different lifestyles and aspirations. And as the two friends begin to regain the closeness which they had before their lives diverged, a powerful ...
The third volume in the saga which began with Northrop Hall. In the years immediately after World War II families all over England are starting to rebuild their lives. Sebastian Crawley's four children, living in Yorkshire with their mother Celia, mu...
Some people envied Flora for being the daughter of a celebrity, but she knew that she was always second best with her mother. Now, with a family of her own, she is proud of the fact that her husband and children always come first. But the best laid p...
The first volume in a spellbinding new family saga, which bears comparison with the best of Rosamunde Pilcher or Elizabeth Jane Howard In the first decade of the twentieth century, life at Northrop Hall carries on much as it has done for centuries. D...
In a novel about changing relationships between parents and children, Corinne Blackford tries to work out her own salvation after her husband, a successful businessman, falls to his death while traveling abroad...
From the early days of her childhood in the Yorkshire Dales, Nell Thorpe learnt through bitter experience that she shouldn't allow herself to become reliant on any man. So when she meets Gregory Nansen on a skiing holiday, she refuses, despite her gr...
The First World War is over and Northrop Hall has now been turned into a rehabilitation home for returning soldiers, under the direction of Diana's tireless husband, James. Diana is proud of James, yet she mourns the fact that their marriage has born...