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Authors taking part:
AnneMarie Brear
Isabelle’s Choice
Ebook, Paperback
Will the choices she’s made ruin her?
AnneMarie Brear
To Gain What’s Lost
Ebook, Paperback
She thinks her life has changed for the better, her dark secrets hidden, but little does she know…
Felicity Dwyer
When Blossoms Fall
Paperback, Ebook
For Matti life has not been easy, brought up through the hardship of war and the heartbreak of the loss it brings was difficult enough without her own physical challenges. Matti steadfastly refuses to accept less from life and with the strength and protection of her friends she faces head on the bitter past and secrets that threaten her happiness. Gladys has a physically abusive father that destroys her trust in any man and decides that marriage is definitely not for her. Ada is a feisty young lady who achieves her dream of being a fire-fighter but at what cost.
Elaine Everest
The Woolworths Girls
Paperback, Ebook, Audio
Pan MacmillanAmazon link
It's 1938 and as the threat of war hangs over the country, Sarah Caselton is preparing for her new job at Woolworths. Before long, she forms a tight bond with two of her colleagues: the glamorous Maisie and shy Freda. The trio couldn't be more different, but they immediately form a close-knit friendship. Sarah soon falls into the rhythm of her new position, enjoying the social events hosted by Woolies and her blossoming romance with young assistant manager, Alan. But with the threat of war clouding the horizon, the young men and women of Woolworths realise that there are bigger battles ahead. It's a dangerous time for the nation, and an even more perilous time to fall in love . . .
Pan MacmillanAmazon link
It's 1938 and as the threat of war hangs over the country, Sarah Caselton is preparing for her new job at Woolworths. Before long, she forms a tight bond with two of her colleagues: the glamorous Maisie and shy Freda. The trio couldn't be more different, but they immediately form a close-knit friendship. Sarah soon falls into the rhythm of her new position, enjoying the social events hosted by Woolies and her blossoming romance with young assistant manager, Alan. But with the threat of war clouding the horizon, the young men and women of Woolworths realise that there are bigger battles ahead. It's a dangerous time for the nation, and an even more perilous time to fall in love . . .
Elaine Everest
Best friends Sarah, Maisie and Freda are brought together by their jobs at Woolworths. With their loved ones away on the front line, their bonds of friendship strengthen each day. Betty Billington is the manager at Woolworths, and a rock for the girls, having given up on love . . . Until a mysterious stranger turns up one day – could he reignite a spark in Betty?
As the year draws to a close, and Christmas approaches, the girls must rely on each other to navigate the dark days that lie ahead . . .
With so much change, can their friendship survive the war?
Marion Fellows
Bridie McMahon
FeedARead.com Publishing
Ebook, paperback
Amazon link
Amazon link
At the turn of the twentieth century Ireland is in the throes of depression, work is scarce and families are starving. Michael McMahon makes the decision to emigrate to England but his vision of a new life is ephemeral. Blighted by the squalid conditions that his family are forced to endure, it is with a heavy heart that he sends his daughter Bridie to work in service as a scullery maid at Oldfell Hall. Will the splendour of this ancestral home erase her memory of the squalor of Baldock Court...or will the young Irish girl's naivety be her downfall? Along with his wife, Mary and young son, Jamie, he watches as the carriage takes her away to face an uncertain future.
Romance, love, tragedy and heartbreak make this a compelling read. You will experience every emotion as you follow Bridie's sometimes traumatic journey culminating at the end of the First World War.
The Spark Girl
Ebook, Paperback, Hardback
Orion
A knock on the door early one morning shouldn't be cause for concern but it is 1941, Britain is at war, and Kitty Williams's fiancé is far from home fighting Hitler with the Navy.
As her heart is shattered hearing the news she had been dreading, Kitty becomes more determined than ever to do her bit for the war effort.
Signing up to the Women's Army is just the sort of challenge Kitty needs but when bombs start to fall on her home town of Coventry, and allies turn against her, Kitty must find the strength she never knew she had to save her family, fix her broken heart and help her country to victory.
It's 1939, and the Brogan family of London's East End are ready to
show Hitler what for. But things don't seem so rosy when rationing,
evacuation and air-raids start to put this larger-than-life family to the
test.
When a mysterious young man arrives at the Brogans' local parish church, he
provides just the dazzling distraction they need - and for eldest daughter
Mattie, the promise of more than she'd ever wished for. But as the pair fall
deeper in love, they are drawn into secret dangers, rife on the very London
streets they call home.
As the young couple race to protect the East End as they know it, can their
dreams survive the darkening backdrop of war-time...?
Winter on the Mersey
Paperback, Ebook
Harper Collins
The phoney war is over and Hitler’s bombs are raining down on the city of Liverpool.Rita Kennedy is forced to face some unpalatable truths about her husband, Charlie. But she must still play the part of dutiful wife, while her childhood sweetheart, Jack Callaghan, has shown her nothing but kindness. Can they keep a check on their emotions or will their friendship develop into something more?
For Kitty Callaghan, burying herself in her work distracts from the constant worry about her brothers. Tommy is back from his evacuee posting after falling ill, but now he faces danger in another guise. And what about Danny, always ducking and diving and up to no good? And then there’s Frank Feeny, the man she adores. Will they ever be together?
Rosie Hendry
East End Angels
Hardback, Paperback, Ebook
Little, Brown Sphere
Strong-willed Winnie loves working at Station Seventy-Five but when tragedy hits she finds herself wondering if she's cut out for this life after all.
Former housemaid Bella has been building a new life for herself but when the air raids begin, it seems she may have to start over once again.
East-Ender Frankie's sense of loyalty keeps her tied to home and with her head and heart pulling in different directions, will she find the strength to come through for her friends when they need her the most?
Brought together at LAAS Station Seventy-Five in London's East End during 1940, these different women soon realise that they'll need each other if they're to get through the days ahead. But can the ties of friendship, love and family all remain unbroken?
Emma Hornby
A Shilling for a Wife
Paperback
Transworld, Penguin Random House
A dismal cottage in the heart of Bolton, Lancashire, has been Sally’s prison since Joseph Goden 'bought' her from the workhouse as his wife. A drunkard and bully, Joseph rules her with a rod of iron, using fists and threats to keep her in check.
When Sally gives birth, however, she knows she must do anything to save her child from her husband's clutches. She manages to escape, and taking her baby, flees for the belching chimneys of Manchester, in search of her only relative.
But with the threat of discovery by Joseph, who will stop at nothing to find her, Sally must fight with every ounce of strength she has to protect herself and her son, and finally be with the man who truly loves her. For a fresh start does not come without a price . . .
Manchester Moll
Paperback
Transworld, Penguin Random House
Transworld, Penguin Random House
Amazon link
Eighteen-year-old Moll Chambers works her fingers to the bone doing all she can to support her family. With an ailing father and a wayward mother, Moll is the only one who can look after her siblings, Bo and Sissy. Manchester is an increasingly dangerous place to live, overrun with a ferocious rivalry between gangs of so-called ‘scuttlers’. And they have her brother in their sights. Soon even Moll can’t protect Bo from the lure of the criminal underworld. Then the scuttlers looked her way.
Eighteen-year-old Moll Chambers works her fingers to the bone doing all she can to support her family. With an ailing father and a wayward mother, Moll is the only one who can look after her siblings, Bo and Sissy. Manchester is an increasingly dangerous place to live, overrun with a ferocious rivalry between gangs of so-called ‘scuttlers’. And they have her brother in their sights. Soon even Moll can’t protect Bo from the lure of the criminal underworld. Then the scuttlers looked her way.
When she falls for the leader of a rival gang, Moll’s choices place her and Bo firmly on opposite sides of the city’s turf war. With her loyalties now torn in two, and tragedy lurking round every corner, will Moll be able to rise above the conflict and protect those she loves the most?
Lizzie Lane
A Wartime Friend
Ebury Publishing
ebook, large print, audio and paperback
A little Jewish girl escaping persecution meets up with a guard dog who refuses to be vicious. The two of them are rescued by the husband of a woman who loves her home above everything else - relocation to an English village where their lives are made whole again.
Lizzie Lane
War Orphans
Ebury Publishing
ebook, hardback, paperback, audio, large print.
350,000 dogs and cats were destroyed during the first week of WW2. This is the story of a puppy who survived and his affect on an orphan, two lovers and a man struggling with bereavement.
Lynette Rees
Black Diamonds
Self Published
Available in Kindle and Paperback
One woman's brave heart.
It is a day of tragedy at the local coal pit just before Christmas 1865 that brings Lily Jenkin into contact with the new chapel minister, Evan Davies. Although a dark cloud of death passes over the village, Lily and Evan draw close to one another as they help the villagers deal with the tragedy. Lily has the opportunity to escape the valley of the shadow of death. Will she seize the chance to go to ‘Zion’, Great Salt Lake in America to follow her Mormon relatives, and more importantly, will Evan, a Welsh Baptist minister, go with her?
Lizzie of Langley Street
Paperback, hardback, Ebook, Audio
Simon & Schuster
Eastender 15-year-old Lizzie Allen is facing desperate times after World War 1, fighting the poverty and crime that threatens to ruin her family.'
Secrets of the Singer Girls
Paperback, Ebook, Hardback, Audio
Pan Macmillan
1942. Sixteen-year-old Poppy Percival turns up at the gates of Trout's clothing factory in Bethnal Green with no idea what her new life might have in store. There to start work as a seamstress and struggling to get to grips with the noise, dirt and devastation of East London, Poppy can't help but miss the quiet countryside of home. But Poppy harbours a dark secret - one that wrenched her away from all she knew and from which she is still suffering . . .
And Poppy's not the only one with a secret. Each of her new friends at the factory is hiding something painful. Vera Shadwell, the forelady, has had a hard life with scars both visible and concealed; her sister Daisy has romantic notions that could get her in trouble; and Sal Fowler, a hardworking mother who worries about her two evacuated boys for good reason. Bound by ties of friendship, loyalty and family, the devastating events of the war will throw each of their lives into turmoil but also bring these women closer to each other than they could ever have imagined.
Mary Wood
Brighter Days Ahead
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
Molly lives with her repugnant father, who has betrayed her many times. From a young age, living on the streets of London’s East End, she has seen the harsh realities of life . . . When she’s kidnapped by a gang and forced into their underworld, her future seems bleak.
Flo spent her early years in an orphanage, and is about to turn her hand to teacher training. When a kindly teacher at her school approaches her about a job at Bletchley Park, it could be everything she never knew she wanted.
Will the girls' friendship be enough to weather the hard times ahead?
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