Books: - Women's Reads - Traditional

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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Maggie Craig

Life has not been kind to young orphans Kate and Andrew Dunbar. Worked all day for no pay by her strict aunt and preyed on at night by her merciless uncle in Regency Edinburgh’s South Bridge, Kate has little time to daydream about the future. If only they could get away from their re...
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Tania Crosse

Lily’s Journey is a 1950s saga set in Dartmoor. When fifteen-year-old Lily Hayes loses her mother, she is sent from London to live with her estranged father in the wilds of Dartmoor. In a remote cottage, Lily struggles to adjust to her new life with the dour Sidney Latham. As his...
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Tania Crosse

An endearing tale of warmth and friendship, love and hope set in the city of Plymouth and the wilds of Dartmoor in the 1950s. The future seems rosy for Plymouth schoolgirl Anna Millington as she studies for teacher training college. But Anna’s life isn’t all that it appears....
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June Francis

When Nellie marries a man who does not meet with her mother’s approval she is cut off from her family. With her soldier husband Teddy away, a pregnant Nellie is forced to face alone the horrors of the blitz. Only when a bomb destroys the family home is she reunited with her younger s...
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