Books: - Women's Reads

Margaret Thornton

Life for Maisie Jackson has been far from happy for a number of years - ever since her mother re-married after her beloved father's death, and her new stepfather and stepbrother moved into their small terraced house in Armley, Leeds. Suffering abuse at her cruel stepbrother's hand, and mer...
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Joan Lingard

Set in Edinburgh, After You've Gone is a moving story about a woman torn between her husband and another man in 1920s society. Willa is a polite and respectable young woman, trying to cope with the tedium of her life whilst her husband is away on a year-long cruise with the Navy. Living w...
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Zoë Foster

Sometime it’s better to kiss than to make up… Hannah Atkins – the girl most likely to be sporting unblended foundation, orange wrists or a wobbly trail of liquid eyeliner – has bluffed her way into the position of beauty editor at Gloss magazine. Just as she&rsquo...
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Maggie Bennett

The Carpenter’s Children follows the lives, loves and adventures of Tom Munday’s three children. In 1914, Tom’s son, Ernest, a serious-minded and sensitive young man, struggles to subdue his pacifist beliefs when called upon to sign up in the army. He leaves his famil...
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Anna Jacobs

For Mattie Willit, caught in a thunderstorm running away from her bullying stepfather, rescue comes in the form of Jacob Kemble, a widowed farmer living with his two young children.  She is escaping from an enforced marriage; he, struggling with the memory of a loveless one. As Ja...
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Price: £19.99
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