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  • For All Our Tomorrows
    Freda Lightfoot
    Can true love conquer all? Sisters Bette Tredinnick and Sara Marrack live quiet lives, content with the comings and goings of their small Cornish hometown. But when hundreds of US Marines arrive, everything changes. Bette, footloose and fancy free, embarks on a whirlwind romance and finds herself bound for America as a GI bride. Meanwhile, married woman Sara finds herself falli...
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    14,20 €

  • Polly’s War
    Freda Lightfoot
    Will she lose everything she’s worked so hard for? The Second World War may be over, but the war in Polly Pride’s home is only just beginning, and it will test her like never before. Her son, Benny, never seems to be far from trouble, spending all his time with shady characters and winding up in the wrong places at the wrong times. Her daughter, Lucy, is seeing another man behi...
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    14,28 €

  • Polly’s Pride
    Freda Lightfoot
    She will keep her head held high, no matter what... Polly Pride’s life is falling apart. Her husband has lost his job, there’s no money coming in, and she has two young mouths to feed. With the prospect of poverty looming over her, and her husband wallowing in apathy, Polly takes control. She sells everything they own and buys a rickety old handcart. Polly piles it high with se...
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    14,44 €

  • Larkrigg Fell
    Freda Lightfoot
    When her life is thrown into disarray, can she remember what matters most? Beth Brandon and her twin sister, Sarah, are polar opposites in every way, except in their love of their home, Larkrigg Hall. Beth is the romantic one, with dreams of an idyllic life in rural Lakeland, while Sarah is willing to take risks to achieve the lifestyle she craves. When tragedy strikes, and bot...
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    14,42 €

  • Storm Clouds Over Broombank
    Freda Lightfoot
    As she struggles to find her feet with her work, new problems emerge... Meg Turner is finally doing the job she loves, but life as a sheep farmer proves tougher than she anticipated. She is a woman trying to prove herself in a man’s world against the backdrop of a brutal war.With her faith being tested in her work, she also fears that the man she loves will betray her again. Me...
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    14,56 €

  • Lonely Teardrops
    Freda Lightfoot
    Blood is thicker than water...It’s a rainy day on Champion Street as Harriet attends the funeral of her beloved father. But then her grandmother drops a bombshell on her out of nowhere and she can hardly take in the words for shock and grief.Joyce, the woman she has always called Mam, isn’t really her mother. After all this time, it at least explains why Joyce always favoured H...
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    14,19 €

  • Candy Kisses
    Freda Lightfoot
    Chocolate can also be bitter...It is a truth universally acknowledged that everyone dotes onAunty Dot, as much as they do on her homemade sweets. The plump, smiling woman has provided a loving home for many a troubled child over the years, and Lizzie Pringle is no exception.Lizzie would do anything for her foster mother - even take on local sweet manufacturer and notorious bull...
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    14,15 €

  • Who’s Sorry Now
    Freda Lightfoot
    There were never such devoted sisters...Things are far from simple in the noisy, warm-hearted Bertalone family. Carmina is the quintessential extrovert with beaus flocking to her side like bees round a honeypot - all exceptLuc Fabriani. For some unaccountable reason, he seems to prefer Carmina’s sister.Gina has always been quiet and shy, the apple of her over-protective parents...
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    14,25 €

  • That’ll be the Day
    Freda Lightfoot
    Flowers spill everyone’s secrets...Working on their busy flower stall in Champion Street Market, Lynda and her mother, Betty, have lots of opportunities to observe their customers and speculate about their lives.Sam regularly buys bouquets for his wife, Judy, so why does she always look so worn out and miserable? Then there’s Leo, who comes every week for flowers for his mother...
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    13,38 €

  • Putting on the Style
    Freda Lightfoot
    Bargains galore and life in the raw...Folk are just emerging from the shadow of WWII and money is still tight. So the vibrant market of Champion Street is a source of many a tempting bargain - as well as all the local gossip.Dena loves her Saturday job at Belle Garside’s market café, and her ready smile makes her a universal favourite. She is soon in thrall to Belle’s two good-...
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    14,22 €

  • Fools Fall in Love
    Freda Lightfoot
    Home is where you hang your hat...When Patsy talks her way into a job on the Champion Street Market millinery stall, the Higginson sisters get more than they bargained for.Riddled with insecurities, Patsy’s impudence wins her new enemies as well as friends and her determination to solve the riddle of her own past starts to unravel secrets Annie and Clara would much rather keep ...
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    14,20 €

  • Gracie’s Sin
    Freda Lightfoot
    War puts their friendship to the test, but can they unite against their true enemy?It’s 1942 and Gracie is eager to do her bit for the war effort. She joins the Women’s Timber Corps, relieved to get away from her quarrelling, interfering parents. Her training leads her to Cornwall where she meets energetic newly-married Lou, and Rosie who is desperate to escape her bully of a b...
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    14,39 €

  • Kitty Little
    Freda Lightfoot
    Against the backdrop of the theatre, a real life drama plays out...After fleeing from a marriage arranged by her ambitious mother, Katherine throws herself into an acting career, but a scandal threatens to wreck everything she has worked for.Charlotte believes she can have any man she wants, and she wants Archie - no matter who is standing in her way. Esme is in love with the l...
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    14,26 €

  • Daisy’s Secret
    Freda Lightfoot
    An old secret is about to be uncovered...Daisy is devastated when her lover, Percy, abandons her. All alone, Daisy is forced by her own mother to give up her baby son for adoption - shortly before she throws Daisy out. War is imminent, and Daisy is evacuated to the Lake District, where she eventually tracks down her black-sheep aunt, Florrie. Together they set up a guest house...
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    14,21 €

  • The Bobbin Girls
    Freda Lightfoot
    She must decide if her childhood sweetheart is worth the struggle...Alena Townsen is in love with Rob and wants to spend the rest of her life with him. But he is the only son of James Hollinthwaite, a wealthy landowner who has his own ideas about Rob’s future, and he forces the two to part. With no other option, Rob and Alena run away together and plan to start a new life.Their...
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    14,23 €

  • Lakeland Lily
    Freda Lightfoot
    When tragedy strikes, she must find a new path...Lily Thorpe is spirited, ambitious and desperate to escape the poverty of her Lake District home, and marry her secret sweetheart Dick Rawlins. But tragedy strikes and Dick is killed in a boating accident caused by the wealthy and arrogant Clermont-Read family. Lily is forced to reassess her future, and she embarks on a quest for...
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    14,18 €

  • The Favourite Child
    Freda Lightfoot
    Where there’s daring, there’s danger...Isabella Ashton has always been her father’s favourite, but when she gets involved with the new Birth Control Movement, he is scandalised. A decade has elapsed since the end of the Great War and running a family planning clinic in Salford is challenging but rewarding work.Bella is grateful for the help of Violet Howarth, a generous-hearted...
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    14,24 €

  • Ruby McBride
    Freda Lightfoot
    Where there’s a rulebook, there’s a rebel...Ruby McBride has always been on the wrong side of authority. The grand opening of the Manchester Ship Canal is set to be a day of unfettered festivity for Ruby and her younger sister and brother. Even Queen Victoria will be in attendance.But the glories of the ceremony fade into insignificance when their dying mother delivers them to ...
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    14,19 €

  • Dancing on Deansgate
    Freda Lightfoot
    Where there’s community, there’s courage...Jess Delaney has always longed for independence. But when the Blitz reaches Manchester, she is locked in the cellar by her feckless mother, Lizzie. As bombs rain down from a sky turned blood red with flame, Jess waits for Lizzie to return.But fortunes are fickle, and soon Jess finds herself packed off to live with her tyrant Uncle Bern...
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    14,14 €

  • The Castlefield Collector
    Freda Lightfoot
    Where there’s muck, there’s mettle...Dolly Tomkins has always known what it is to live hand to mouth. In the mean streets of a Salford struggling under the mantle of the Great Depression, the only one making a decent living is the talleyman.Though Nifty Jack has a money bag where his heart should be, Dolly’s mam is in hock up to her ears and in dire need of assistance. But when...
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    14,34 €

  • The Girl From Poor House Lane
    Freda Lightfoot
    How far will a mother go to protect her child?The slums of Poor House Lane are no place to bring up a child, and Kate O’Connor struggles to make ends meet when her beloved husband is killed, leaving her a single mother with a baby to support on the meagre hand-outs she gleans from charity. So when the childless Tysons, owners of Kendal’s shoe factory, offer to adopt her son, Ca...
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    14,50 €

  • The Child from Nowhere
    Freda Lightfoot
    As the Great War looms, will the women of Kendal rise to meet the challenge?After giving birth to her daughter, Kate O’Connor finds herself back in Poor House Lane with some momentous decisions to make.Faced with the opportunity to move out of the slums, she invests her unexpected fortune in a new shoe factory to challenge Eliot Tyson’s monopoly over the workforce, regardless o...
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    14,61 €

  • The Woman from Heartbreak House
    Freda Lightfoot
    What will life bring now The Great War is over?The Great War is over and Kate is ready to welcome back Eliot with open arms. But her husband is a changed man. Kate has become used to her independence, and Eliot’s return creates tensions both at work and at home, particularly with Kate’s son, Callum.It tears Kate apart to see such strife between the two men she loves most. And h...
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    14,33 €