Rating: 3.5 - 4 stars.This book had suspense running through it from start to finish. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it, because I had purchased it from an online bookshop for a bargain price, so I wasn't sure what to expect. It was my first novel by Margaret Dickinson but it won't be my l...
Adelina Cole has grown up knowing little of her parents' history before they eloped to New York in 1795. Now, twenty years later, orphaned and alone she determines to escape from the scandal and disgrace her father sunk to before his violent death, and stows away on a merchant ship back to Englan...
Meg Kirkland fears her impudent tongue has caused her father’s dismissal from his job and forced her whole family from their home on Middleditch Farm. Worse still, her father abandons them outside the workhouse, leaving Meg to care for her devastated mother, Sarah, and little brother as tragedy c...
Hannah Francis has been forced to leave her beloved mother and the life she knows in the silk mill town of Macclesfield and is set to become an apprentice at a cotton mill in the Derbyshire dales. It is a cruel blow for such a young girl, but her three travelling companions are even younger than ...
The compelling sequel to the top-selling Lincolnshire saga Tangled Threads, this is a captivating story of love, war and courage.
Arriving with the herring girls who follow the shoals down the coast, the orphaned Jeannie Buchanan rescues Gracie from a stag-night mob and is welcomed into her family. The groom marries the girl his parents chose, but Jeannie cannot forget him, even after she marries Gracie's brother.
Harry Forrest was desperate to have a son to take over his thriving Lincolnshire mill, but Emma is his only child. Forced by her father into a loveless marriage with a gambler, Emma is determined that one day she will prove to her father that she is his worthy and rightful heir.
Nevertheless, Kitty kept its arrival a secret from Jack. And to do so, it was necessary for her to destroy it, for there was no place where he might not, some day, find it. But it didn’t matter, she told herself, for by the time she dropped it into the glowing coals of the...
Her mother shook her head wildly. ‘No – no. I’ve been into town – in the trap. I saw the bombs. I – I thought it was the farm . . .’ She gulped painfully. ‘I came tearing home – a bomb had landed in the lane – I had to go right round by the Grange to get back.’ ‘Where is me dad, then?’ Esther was...
He was painfully thin, his clothes dirty and dishevelled and the anguish in his face was pitiful to see. ‘Come with me. You need some food inside you, right now.’ Josh took hold of his friend’s arm and helped him across the room and down the stairs. Trip was frail, like an...
Luckily, Nurse Newton had arrived the previous week and had set up a bedroom on the top floor for the confinement. Annabel was fortunate that her labour moved swiftly and her child was born in the early hours of the following day. The baby’s lusty cries woke the household, most of whom were awake...
‘No one must know about us, Florence. You do understand that, don’t you?’ ‘Of course,’ she said swiftly. ‘Sister Blackstock would send me packing immediately. And I don’t want to go – especially now.’ He chuckled. ‘I don’t think they would do that to me, but my reputation would not be so – how do...
That first night, their wedding night, she sat in the bedroom, tense and fearful, waiting for him to come to her. She sat by the window, shivering and staring out into the darkness, seeing nothing, but determined to stay as far away from the big double bed as she could. She kept her eyes averted ...
Lord Rowan was staying with Lord and Lady Melmoth and so it was to ‘ Eldon House’ the brothers took her the following day. There was no ceremony about the greeting she received. As soon as the carriage stopped before the front door Lord Rowan—limping slightly Lavinia notic...
Polly, with Michael on her hip, opened it to find a strange woman there, carrying a huge carpetbag. At first she thought it was a gypsy telling fortunes or selling pegs. The woman, with black hair and swarthy skin, was dressed in flowery, flowing garments beneath a moth-eaten fur coat. Bracelets ...
They were still all sitting down there in Jemima’s front room, drinking tea and talking over the shattering events of the day. Kathy stayed alone in her room. She couldn’t face the kindly faces of the Robinsons and their sympathy. Only Jemima’s brisk attitude was bearable at the moment.She was be...
Peggy was already in her dressing gown and filling her hot-water bottle in the kitchen. She didn’t really need it, but its warmth was comforting.‘You look done in, the pair of you,’ Mary said. ‘Now, I really think you should go to work tomorrow, Rose, and Myrtle, you should start getting yourself...
She was torn between memories of being in Michael’s arms and the final threat from Mrs Trowbridge hanging over her. Could Michael really like her? she asked the darkness. She knew she had changed since she had first come to Few Farm. Good food and fresh air had made her gr...
Meg, blithely ignorant of the depth of the trouble within Fleur’s family, offered to make not only the bride’s gown but also a bridesmaid’s dress for Ruth. When the girls couldn’t get to Nottingham for a fitting, Meg travelled by train and bus to the village where they were billeted, lugging a su...
We’re all just waiting for an official announcement from the Prime Minister, but plans for the celebrations are starting already.’ ‘That’s all very well,’ Edie frowned, ‘but when are they all coming home? That’s what I want to know.’ ‘I expect Irene and Tommy will be the first to come back. There...
‘I was worried. I thought something must have happened. I nearly had to anchor.’ ‘Oh, what a catastrophe that would have been,’ Mary Ann snapped. ‘Well, you can thank your daughter. She ran off playing and I couldn’t find her.’ She avoided looking at Lizzie, knowing that the girl would be gazing ...
Christmas came and went but just as she always had, Dot couldn’t be bothered to try to make the occasion special. So long as Arthur loaded her with presents, she didn’t give a thought to anyone else. But this year the weather was bad with snow drifting against their door. Arthur couldn’t drive hi...
Bridget did not tell her son and so Eveleen had a few days’ grace to think and to plan. Nottingham, she decided. There would be work there. Now that both she and Jimmy could operate frames, she was sure that there would be work in the hosiery industry for them. Somehow she...
When I had gone to her bedroom late that night and told her of my conversation with Charles, it had been all I could do to keep the dear girl from shouting out her happiness aloud and waking the whole household. The beauty and brightness returned to her eyes and I knew tha...
Euphemia and Percy were sitting in the Windsor chairs on either side of the range whilst Mary was busy making tea and handing round her home-made biscuits. Edward stood to one side, listening as Euphemia held court. As Charlotte opened the door, they all looked up. Euphemia flung her arms wide. ‘...
He had come upon it by accident. Out cycling around the Lincolnshire Wolds one summer Sunday about four miles from the village where he lived, he had been startled by the sudden appearance of a glider surging up from behind a clump of trees. Intrigued, he had pedalled towards it. Closer he could ...
