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| Sophie Baxter appears to have everything she could wish for. She is a young woman of the 90s. But when she becomes compelled to make decisions about her own life, she consults both her mother and grandmother and begins to question the legacy of freedom won for her by previous generations. |
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| When middle class Cathy falls in love with working class Joseph, a soldier, she dare not tell her family, who want her to marry into the wealthy Callingham family. Class and the war loom between them and happiness. When Joseph is killed in France and Cathy discovers she is pregnant, she has little option but to accept young Henry Callingham’s proposal made as he goes off to war… |
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| Buffeted by the winds of war. Now they face the tempestuous tides of peace… The story of three women linked by fate and war and the men who loved or hated them. It is 1945 and men and women prepare to return to the lives they left behind in 1939. But the world, for most of them, has changed beyond all recognition. Cathy prepares for the birth of her baby and life without Max. Sarah hugs… |
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| At thirty-two Emma Gaunt is in control of her life. She has wealth and independence and is her lover’s boss. Then two unlikely events overturn Emma’s well-ordered world. Curious to meet her lover’s wife, she volunteers to collect a missing file from his home and in so doing sees his children… |
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| On the face of it Ben Webster has it all, wealth, health, a beautiful wife and a thriving business. In fact, his wife is unfaithful and predators are circling the profitable firm that he heads. And then his beloved grandmother summons him. She tells him… |
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| Reeling from the collapse of his marriage and the loss of his business, Ben Webster embarks on a mission… to find a baby adopted in 1945 and reunite him with his birth mother. He is aided in this by Barbara, a young barrister, but she has her own mission, to find out who really committed a murder before her innocent client, a young man accused of murdering his beautician… |
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| Claire Griffin is shattered when her husband, a Tory MP, is found dead in another woman’s bed. Hounded by the press, her family and friends, Claire takes herself away to her old university town. The isolation seems to heal her but she is determined to find out the identity of the other woman. |
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| In the Durham mining village of Belgate, the legacy of World War I affects rich and poor, socialist and aristocrat, Jew and gentile alike. Howard Brenton, heir to the colliery, back from the trenches with a social conscience but lacking the confidence to implement it… Diana, his beautiful, aristocratic wife, afraid of her dour new world and fatally drawn to the jazzy gaiety of twenties’ London… Miner Frank Maguire and his bitter wife Anne, fired by union fervour as they struggle to survive the slump… |
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| It is 1939 and the threat of war looms ever closer as Hitler unleashes terror across Europe. In the Durham mining village of Belgate, the inhabitants brace themselves for the conflict ahead. As the war deepens, the people of Belgate are swept up in a struggle for survival that will eclipse personal differences and draw rich and poor together. |
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(The third book in the Beloved People Trilogy series) Peace may have come to Britain, but for Frank Maguire, miner and union leader, his wife Anne and their family, poverty and rationing are still making life hard. To add to Anne’s sorrow, her daughter has married a GI, and is taking Anne’s grandchild to the United States, leaving her with a grieving heart and a guilty secret. |
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| As London licks its wounds in the immediate aftermath of war, four orphaned sisters must learn not only how to survive but how to succeed. Life will take them from a London tenement to the four corners of the UK and beyond but wherever they are, in Paris nightspots or rural Scotland, in the corridors of commerce or the struggle simply to survive, the bond of family will hold. Or will it? What can unite some and set others at daggers drawn? The love of a man or something even more compelling? |
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| Fran’s happy marriage to David has always been the centre of her life in the close-knit mining village of Belgate in County Durham. Suddenly, at 32 she finds herself a widow. Her whole world has fallen apart. The author also wrote “Remember the Moment” and “The Second Wife” |
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| As newly widowed Fran struggles to rebuild her life in a mining village where she is still a stranger, the fury of the 1984-5 miners’ strike erupts around her. Passions run high as families are torn apart by their beliefs. Will Treesa, bereaved by death in the pit, survive? Will the Malone fami… |
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| As single mum Fran embarks on her new career tragedy strikes. Can love grow out of heartbreak? Two women must find out for themselves. |
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| Ellie has gone missing. Why? She is haunted by thoughts of Julia, Richard’s dead first wife, and by another spectre - this time from her own past. In a desperate bid to find Ellie, Richard enlists the help of Paul, a psychiatrist, and Terri, Ellie’s best friend. Terri too is a second wife… |
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| Sara certainly seems to have it all - looks, charm, brains and, to make matters worse, the only man whom Lexy, an awkward teenager, knows she can ever love. Faced with an impossible dilemma, Lexy feels she has no choice but to leave forever and start a new life - until years later, tragedy and… |
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| In the early hours of New Year’s Day 1980, eight young people race one another to the summit of a northern hill. “Where will we all be in ten years’ time?”, wonders one. This novel answers that question. |
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| As World War II ends, four young women who met in service and became close friends leave to return to their former lives. The war has changed each of them and brought some of them great personal loss, and none of them can possibly know what the future will hold. |
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| Daphne Bedford, a feature journalist for the “Herald”, is to produce an expose of Daybreak TV. But as she becomes more and more embroiled in life at Daybreak, she finds the thought of the dirt-dishing expose she’s been sent to put together more and more unappealing. |
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| “Returning home for a family wedding after a romantic break in Paris with partner, Leigh, Rachel is looking forward to spending time with her family. But the minute she walks through the door she senses tension in the air – tension she recognises only too well. This is not the first affair her father has had… |
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| “As sunlight breaks into the first-floor flat at No. 13 Grimshaw Street, Julie Baxter. forever bright and irrepressible, gets ready for the mad merry-go-round of the day ahead. A single mum, she has plenty to keep her occupied and there are always the other tenants in the house to sort out… |
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| Adoption has many faces – the mother who gives up her child, the woman who yearns for a baby and accepts it with joy, the child who must one day learn the secrets of its birth. Sometimes there is a happy ending for all three. Sometimes the first secret gives rise to others, darker and more menacing than the first. When tragedy forces Helen to seek out the baby… |
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