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Diamonds in the Dust
Beryl Matthews
London 1920. Dora Bentley’s father had been killed in the War and their mother, Harriet, works at night at Grants clothing factory in order to support her family. While she is at work Dora looks after her brother, twelve-year-old Tom, and little Lilly. Their mother is alw...
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Autumn in Catalonia
Jane MacKenzie
During Spain’s turbulent 1960s, in a mansion in the foothills of the Pyrenees, Joana idles her days away, banished by her powerful husband and alienated from her family.
Carla hates everything her parents stand for. She has embraced the student movement against Franco’s regime...
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Dark Harvest
Amy Myers
March 1915. Caroline Lilley’s fiancé, Reggie, is away at the Front and Caroline gives up her job and returns home at this request. Frustrated in her desire to help the war effort, she throws herself into saving the harvest by organising the village women – and runs up ag...
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Summer's End
Amy Myers
The end of the old world’ people said about the long hot summer of 1914. It was the last season of optimism, of certainty about the future as the sun set on the Edwardian age.
That summer Aunt Tilly comes to stay with her brother the Rector and his four lively daughters in the...
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Born To Dance
June Tate
1934. Talented eighteen-year-old dancer Bonny Burton joins the chorus at Southampton's Palace of Varieties and becomes fast friends with gifted choreographer Rob Andrews. When the pair are spotted by a talent scout, they are contracted to appear in the West End. Soon, Bonny becomes the dar...
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