Drawing on her Northern English background, this author enriches her bestselling novels. Her stories come alive with down-to-earth characters, lending them vivid authenticity, and are written with both humor and poignancy. Despite physical challenges, she writes steadily, sharing her narrative voice with readers.
A sequel to "A Better World Than This", which won the Romantic Novelists' Award. It is 1947. The war is over, but life is still very harsh. Following the death of her husband Joshua, the indomitable Daisy Penny resolves to sell her boarding-house in Blackpool and start a new life in the country.
They lived worlds apart. Jenny was the girl from the cat-meat shop, born into squalor and defeat. Paul Tunstall was a soldier and a gentleman, arrogant and charming, with his silver-light eyes and boyish smile. And yet from the moment they met there was a spark between them - and their separate lives of pain and loneliness seemed to beckon to each other.
During the height of the Depression, young Lisa Logan takes a job in a fabric store, and her talent of color, line, and design lead her to the heights of the fashion and design world
It was a Lancashire mill town in the grim years of the Depression - a town divided between the haves and the have-nots, between families like the mill-owning Boltons and the millworking Armstrongs. But Dorothy Bolton was determined to cross that chasm and risk everything for the love of Stanley Armstrong. Even if it meant choosing sides.