Books: - Women's Reads

Margaret Thornton

It is August 1900 and ten-year-old Maddy Moon is relishing the prospect of a long summer in Scarborough stretching out ahead of her. While watching the Pierrot shows on the beach, she meets and befriends another young girl, Jessie, who is holidaying in Scarborough for the summer. Maddy i...
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June Francis

When Nellie marries a man who does not meet with her mother’s approval she is cut off from her family. With her soldier husband Teddy away, a pregnant Nellie is forced to face alone the horrors of the blitz. Only when a bomb destroys the family home is she reunited with her younger s...
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June Francis

A tender tale of the ties that bind families together... and threaten to tear them apart.  As the First World War rolls on towards its end, it takes its toll on the inhabitants of Victoria Crescent in Chester. Alice Bennett's relief at hearing her husband, Sebastian, is alive is temp...
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 It is 1800 and in the quiet village of Felpham hearts are stirring and passions are rising. At Turret House, the elegant estate of celebrated poet William Hayley Esquire, there is much excitement at the arrival of another poet and engraver, William Blake, to the village. But yo...
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Penelope Evans

      'I was four when I killed my baby brother.' Rose can't even remember how it happened, but in the aftermath only her older brother, Max, remained the same. Beautiful Max, stepping in between her and a world that has changed too much. Rose needs him more than...
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