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The Silversmith's Daughter

It is 1915 and Daisy Tallis, headstrong, impassioned and a talented young silversmith, is desperate to make her parents proud. Her father...

Girls in Tin Hats

1940 - Small Heath, in the heart of Birmingham, is facing the darkest days of the war. Two very different girls from this tight-knit c...

Birmingham Friends

By the author of "Birmingham Rose". Anna grew up with stories of her mother's childhood in Birmingham and of Kate's friend, Olivia. But w...

The Orphan of Angel Street

Abandoned at birth, little Mercy Hanley shows a fierce determination few others can match. Her inner fire burns brightly, even in the har...

Meet Me Under the Clock

Growing up in Birmingham, Sylvia and Audrey Whitehouse have always been like chalk and cheese. When the Second World War breaks out, Sylv...

Family of woman

Spanning more than half of the last century,Family of Woman is the story of one family-and of the joys,struggles and changes in womans li...

The Bells of Bournville Green

Pretty seventeen-year-old Greta has never known a stable family life. With no father, and loathing her mother Ruby's latest boyfriend, Gr...

The Bells of Bournville Green

Pretty seventeen-year-old Greta has never known a stable family life. With no father, and loathing her mother Ruby’s latest boyfriend, G...

Birmingham Rose

For Rose Lucas, a spirited, intelligent girl, born into a large family in the slums of pre-war Birmingham, life is limited and hard. But ...

Miss Purdy's Class

One Of The Teachers, The Elderly Miss Drysdale, Proves An Inspiration, And Gwen Begins To Understand The Appalling Hardships Endured By T...

Soldier Girl

This is a sequel to "The Hopscotch Summer". Molly Fox has grown up in the back streets of Birmingham at the mercy of her cruel grandfathe...

Kate & Olivia

Anna grew up with stories of her mother's childhood in Birmingham and of Kate's friend, Olivia. But when Kate died, she left her daughter...

Water Gypsies

It is 1942, and after a childhood of suffering in Birmingham, Maryann Bartholomew has built a life of happiness and safety with her husba...

Omnibus-Family of Women,Miss Purdy's Class

Family of Women is the story of three generations of women. Bessie is scarred by a childhood of poverty in the slums of Victorian Birming...

Poppy Day

A stirring novel of love and remembrance Jessica Hart’s happy childhood as the daughter of a country blacksmith is changed forever by th...

Family of Women

Omnibus: Birmingham Rose/Where Earth Meets Sky

Birmingham Rose Life is bleak for Rose Lucas, a spirited, intelligent girl, born into a large family in the slums of pre-war Birmingham....

All The Days of Our Lives

It is 1946: the war is over and three young women face a new kind of life. But peacetime brings its own pressures . . . Katie O'Neill...

The Narrowboat - Girl Water Gypses

Where Earth Meets Sky

Beautiful, dark-haired Lily has been abandoned in a Birmingham slum as a tiny child. With few clues as to her identity she endures a chil...

The Narrovboat Girl - Water Gypsies

The Narrovboat Girl An absorbing tale of adventure and true love; Young Maryann Nelson is devastated at the loss of her beloved father...

The Narrowboat Girl

An absorbing tale of adventure and true love Young Maryann Nelson is devastated at the loss of her beloved father. But worse is to come w...

Now the War is Over

The Second World War has finally come to a close. Birmingham is welcoming home its menfolk, and a new chapter is beginning in Rachel Book...

The Women of Lilac Street

Birmingham, almost a decade after the end of the Great War, and the women of Lilac Street have had more than their fair share of trouble...

Chocolate Girls/Water Gypsies (two novels)

The Narrowboat Girl

My Daughter, My Mother

In 1984 two young mothers meet at a toddler group in Birmingham. As their friendship grows, they share with each other the difficulties a...

War Babies

Rachel Booker has a difficult start in life. When her father dies, deep in gambling debt, her mother must harden herself to make ends mee...

My Daugther my Mother

In 1984 two young mothers meet at a toddler group in Birmingham. As their friendship grows, they share with each other the difficulties a...

Chocolate Girls

Three very different women work together at Cadbury's Bournville factory, and their lives become entwined by war and work - and a child c...

The Women of Lilac Street

Lilac Street was a crowded, sooty-faced, workaday place, the houses full and the streets teeming with children. One thing it was, without...

A Hopscotch Summer

Emma Brown is a happy-go-lucky child, content to work hard at school, and to play hopscotch with her friends on the pavement outside her ...