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When widow Simone leaves Australia to do a house swap with a couple in the UK, she meets Ross who's looking for some peace and quiet after an accident. Can they help each other build new lives

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Following the death of their parents, the Norton siblings are tragically split up. While Helen is taken in by their selfish aunt, her twin brothers find themselves in a soul-destroying orphanage while their younger sister is adopted by the wealthy Partingtons. Years later, Helen begins the long and difficult search for her lost family.

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Bestselling author Annie Murray explores one family's suffering - plagued by two horrific accidents - over two generations.

1905. Rosie Belsfield feels as if her life has ended when she is rejected from Ellis Island and put on the next boat back to England, leaving her family behind. But fate gives her a second chance when she befriends Lady Rosalind. Having boarded the ship with one identity, fate decrees that Rosie leave it with another ...

The Ryan family had barely grown accustomed to the security their small coal business provided when it is detroyed in a fire. Forced to turn to their father Jack's brother Conor for help, daughter Ellen struggles to keep the family together under Conor's drunken tyranny.

Jane Reynolds father dominates her life. After his sudden death she becomes a virtual recluse, leaving her small farm only to sell her fruit and vegetables. But everything changes on a dark, cold night when she finds a young runaway hiding near her cottage.

"No Rest for the Wicked" mixes a story with an introduction to a remarkable period in time.

When Maddie is tricked into giving up her baby for adoption, she is utterly devastated. She decides to leave home, but who can she turn to for help Catching the train to Leicester, Maddie goes in search of the one person who might take her in - even though she has no idea where they live.

Poppy Meadows has a face of rare beauty. She lives with her widowed mother and her brother and, like any other nineteen-year-old, enjoys life. And, oh, how she loves to dance! The only blot on her happiness is her dreadful boss in the office where she works.

This saga is set on Queensland's beautiful coast in the late 1870s. It follows the fortunes of two young women who migrate to Australia, after becoming destitute in London.

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When Letty Edginton becomes a munitionette in the Royal Woolwich Arsenal her life changes forever. She finds herself part of a world where girls wear makeup and boys whistle. In the midst of this she meets Ollie, beginning a journey of love and hardship.

Meet Sadie Keith: 39 years-young, single mum of twins, and self- employed magic operative (she doesn't like to say 'clown').

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Born and bred in poverty, spirited Poppy Silk is determined to gain an education and rise above the hardship she knows. Robert Crawford offers her lessons, but as their feelings develop Poppy can only hope he will claim her before she can no longer avoid handsome but violent navvy Jericho.

Spring 1944. A group of GIs arrive in Columbine, causing a stir amongst the local women. Kerry Penfold's sweetheart, Tom, is a serving soldier in France, so she is content to watch as her best friend Claire becomes smitten. But when charming Marvin Mcleod receives a Dear John letter from his girlfriend, Kerry becomes his shoulder to cry on.

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A gripping saga evoking the spirit of the 1970s East End, from the author of Room for a Lodger and Banished from Bow.

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Red Sky in the Morning is an unputdownable historical story from Margaret Dickinson, richly evocative of the Lincolnshire landscape.

Kitty is seventeen, restless and rebellious. She yearns for stories of the father she never knew and when her gossipy aunt divulges that he was from money Kitty decides that she will no longer live the life of poverty and sets out to educate herself. However dispite this task being done, heartbreak and hardship are never far behind Kitty.

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For years, Roscarrock, the partially hidden house on the cliff, has held a peculiar fascination for the children of the village. A childhood investigation to spy on the house leads to the death of Hannah Spargo's brother, and to her banishment from her home and family.

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Laura Jennings's maternal feelings are usually satisfied by her role as "surrogate mother" to Spencer Jeffries' six-year-old daughter Vicki. When Spencer and Laura decide to marry, things don't work out well - are they trapped in a loveless marriage, or too stubborn to admit their true feelings

In 1942, fifteen year old Ruby is taken to live in industrial Lancashire,where a number of US black troops take over a nearby camp. Tension rises between the troops and the locals, many of whom still have embedded racial prejudices.A struggle of adolescence, illicit love, dangerous friendships and doing what is right in a chaotic and unfair world.

Wendy Robertson's heart-warming new novel is an enchanting tale of friendship, self-discovery, and the joys and hardships of factory life.