Books: - Women's Reads - Traditional

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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Julia Stoneham

1945 and the war is drawing to a close. For three years, the land girls at Post Stone Farm have worked together, defying Hitler in their own way. They have witnessed love and loss, found their independence, and made lifetime friends. Her years as warden of a Land Army hostel have trans...
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Freda Lightfoot

Two years have passed for Livia and her sisters and  finally all seems well for them. Livia is set to marry Jack and her sisters are, for the moment, settled on Todd Farm. Livia also wants to bring back to life the neglected family business: is she prepared to jeopardise her future li...
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Catrin Collier

America 1968. Protests against the Vietnam War, for Civil Rights, sit-ins, love-ins, happenings – youth pitted against the establishment, hoping to create a better world. Everyone has one special summer. For British students Penny and Kate and Americans, Bobby and Sandy it was tha...
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