My Books
DANCING AT THE VICTORY CAFE
DAYS OF BREAD AND ROSES
IN THE HEART OF THE GARDEN
THE STONE RAINBOW
TROUBLE IN THE WIND
SONG OF THE HEART
DANCING AT THE VICTORY CAFE
A wartime saga about a cafe and the girls who work in it. Everytime a dish is mentioned in the novel it is accompanied by the recipe.
ISBN: 0340649763
DAYS OF BREAD AND ROSES
A novel about the suffragettes by the author of "Dancing at the Victory Cafe".
ISBN: 0340658207
IN THE HEART OF THE GARDEN
The tale of a garden in the heart of England , and the generations of women who have found solace there. The plot of land at Fritha's Well first becomes a garden in AD 912. It lives through the terror of the Plague years, the divisions of Civil War, and the heartbreak of the Great War.
ISBN: 0340695714
THE STONE RAINBOW
In the shadow of loss and disgrace, Netta must watch her child being brought up by her father and step-mother. It is not the first time her step-mother has taken what is hers - her dead mother's necklace, for instance. Netta is determined to win back both.
ISBN: 0749931779
TROUBLE ON THE WIND
Trouble On The Wind is a lively Yorkshire saga, combining the elements of Cold Comfort Farm and Under Milk Wood. The peaceful idyll of Scarsbeck village is shattered by the navvies blasting a railway through the fells.
A NOVEL OF THE BUILDING OF THE SETTLE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY IN 1871.
"The navvies come to an isolated village in the Yorkshire Dales where they are treated with hostility and suspicion. So great is the fear of these offcomers and their contamination they fail to notice a secret rot already eating away at the heart of their close knit community. A compelling gritty read well researched, which entertains and gives you food for thought."
GREAT READS IN LARGE PRINT. PONTEFRACT LIBRARY.
ISBN: 0340695684
SONG OF THE HEART
First love cuts the deepest.
This is the bittersweet story of Ewan and Minn, childhood friends bound together by the accidental drowning of Ewan's sister on a Scottish island but separated by tragedy and misunderstanding. Theirs is an ill fated loving in an isolated community but the pull of passion is stronger than the tide.
Out of the turmoil of the Second World war comes Ewan's artistic success and Minn 's frustration with the emptiness of her comfortable life on the mainland. Drawn back to to the island they meet again by the shore at floodtide. Both have families to consider and secrets to share.
Once more the sea decides whether their love will live or die...
Published 2004 by Severn House Publishers.
ISBN. 0-7278-6126-3
