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During the hazardous years of the Depression, Christine Winter, with the indefinable appeal that drives men to the brink of obsession, meets a stranger and finds her life changed beyond recall.

Hannah Massey is the matriarch of her family but her daughter, the apple of her eye, creates an explosive situation.

Matthew lies in a hospital bed, wondering what place there is for a blind man in the new social order of a Britain adjusting to post-war austerity.

Kate is happily married to Dr Rodney Prince, who has willingly accepted her illegitimate daughter Annie as the eldest child of their household.

This powerful and enthralling novel spans more than three decades, from the 1880's to the First World War, and tells the story of Ward Gibson, his family, and those whose destiny is influenced

Even as a child Barbara was beautiful, but as her beauty grew so did the affliction which shadowed it. She was becoming totally deaf.

Catherine Cookson's own story; of her mother and her harsh childhood growing up in a poor English family.

Even the approach of Christmas, 1913, fails to excite the restless Agnes Conway, the twenty-two-year-old manager of her feckless father's adjoining sweet and tobacconist shops.

Joseph Rooney, dustman, is looking for lodgings. Ma Howlett welcomes him but he feels strange and shy. Then he meets Nellie and suddenly things are not so bad.

When Fred suggests to his wife, Sally, that they should take a boating holiday on the Norfolk Broads, she is filled with trepidation. A series of disasters threaten to ruin their holiday.

Irene Baindor was a woman with a past, and her emergence at a respectable firm of London solicitors was to signal the unravelling of a mystery that had baffled the lawyer for twenty-six years.

Tilly Trotter, unwed and 5 months pregnant when Mark Sopwith died, crossed the world to a strange new land and the perils that awaited her there.

With her two children and adopted daughter, Tilly returns to Highfield Manor.

In the third of a series of novels, troubles develop in the Bailey home when the three stepchildren, Mark, Katie, and Willie, and the adopted daughter, Mamie, face the addition of Bill and Fiona&#0

Fiona is a young widow left badly off with three children. She advertises for a lodger and that is when Bill Bailey comes into her life.