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The Girl from the Docklands Cafe
June Tate
Southampton, 1912. Jessie is just nineteen when her father passes away and her mother decides to return to her native Ireland. But Jessie, headstrong and independent, prefers to take charge of her own destiny and finds employment at a workman’s cafe, becoming the darling of the dockw...
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The Girl on the Beach
Mary Nichols
Julie Monday, abandoned by her mother and raised in a children’s home, enjoys a rare moment of happiness when at the age of eight she visits the Essex seaside and meets eleven-year-old Harry Walker. They spend a happy few hours together, but at the end of the afternoon, she must retu...
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The Hamiltons of Ballydown
Anne Doughty
In the closing years of the nineteenth century the Hamilton family have much to be thankful for. As well as the new-found security of living in their own home at Ballydown, John is a respected employee and friend of mill owner Hugh Sinton, and Rose has a new, much-valued friend in Elizabet...
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The Hawthorns Bloom in May
Anne Doughty
Now in her fifties and a grandmother, Rose Hamilton has much to be thankful for in the steady love of her husband John and their relative prosperity. But she is concerned for her children: Sarah, recently widowed, is burdened with grief and worried by signs of trade union discontent in the...
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The Hidden Dance
Susan Wooldridge
Winner of the Big Red Read Award for Best Debut Novel 2010
Runner up for the Big Red Read Fiction Award 2010
On March 1st 1933 the luxury liner, SS Etoile, sets sail from Southampton en route for New York. England has finally emerged from the terrors of the Great War and yet the n...
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