Ruth Hamilton is celebrated as one of North West England's most beloved authors. Her novels are deeply rooted in the region, capturing the lives and destinies of her characters with profound understanding and empathy. Hamilton's distinctive voice and her skill in crafting compelling narratives make her a significant and cherished literary figure.
Kate Murray's father rejected her from birth. Knowing from the start that there could be no more children, and therefore no son and heir, he hated her. She grew up determined to find a life where people were proud of her. The author has also written A Whisper to the Living.
A saga spanning 40 years of life in the Lancashire cotton mills. This book tells of the lives and loves of two families from different backgrounds. The unhappy Swainbanks, cushioned by wealth but tortured by emotional conflict come to need the Maguires, especially Ma Maguire, more and more.
Behind closed doors everyone has a secret . . .
This is the story of an evil and violent woman, who nearly destroys the lives of those around her. The West family were affluent and had three daughters. But from childhood, Honoria cast a pall of fear and suspicion over the family. Violent and unpleasant things happened and were dismissed as accidents, but soon her parents became alarmed.
Set in Liverpool in the 1930s, Bridget O'Brien, a young widow with two children, arrives from Ireland to start a new life married to a man she has never met and whose twin sons are older than she is.
A warm-hearted and compelling saga from the bestselling author Ruth Hamilton
Wealthy mill owner, Edward Shawcross, had been a penniless young man until he married the daughter of the Fishwick family. The Fishwicks went to live abroad, leaving everything to their son-in-law. No-one knows why. But as a new generation begins to grow up, the past scandals begin to emerge.
Leanne Chalmers has made a career for herself presenting her own style of home decorating and design on the nation's screens. That was her past life, at least. For now Leanne has been forced to start again as Lily, leaving her name, job, and marriage behind. No one in the Lancashire village of Eagleton has a clue about Lily, save that she's come up from the South West with her best friend and a small child. But it’s hard to lead a solitary existence in a small place, and Lily and Babs are swiftly embraced by some of the local characters: Mike, the Catholic priest, who the girls can't help noticing is easy on the eye; Eve, a Liverpudlian, who has a big mouth but a heart of gold; the hairdressers Paul and Maurice; and Dave and his love, Philly, both shy yet determined not to be cowed by Dave’s mother, the domineering matriarch of the village. Soon, Lily's new life is full of promise and as she joins Dave's reading room, a shop come café and library, she begins to relax. But then Eve is wounded in a burglary, and suddenly, Lily is afraid that her secret is out: her husband Clive may have discovered where she is, and, having left her for dead before, is now out to kill her.
In this moving saga set in Liverpool, a woman is fleeing her past in the final novel from the much-loved and bestselling author Ruth Hamilton.
When Bernard Walsh moved his family to Liverpool he did not expect his past to pursue him. But then Theresa Nolan, bent on revenge, arrived in the city. While she wrought havoc, two young girls trod paths separated by fate, but joined by blood, winding their routes towards the Corner House.
