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1872: Young Daisy Fraser is living in the Yorkshire Dales with her beloved family. Her sister Kitty is set to marry handsome, wealthy Clifford Middleton. But on the eve of the wedding, Clifford commits a terrible act that shatters Daisy's happy life. She carries her secret for the next nine months, but is left devastated when she gives birth and the baby is pronounced dead. Soon she is cast out by her family and has to make her own way in the world....
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Pan
Pub. Date
2012
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1912 in the Yorkshire Dales and Alice Bentham and her brother Will have lost their mother to cancer. Alice gets work at Whernside Manor looking after Lord Frankland's fragile sister Miss Nancy. For a while everything runs smoothly, but corruption, attempted murder, and mis-placed love are just waiting in the wings.
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Thorpe
Pub. Date
2016
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From birth, Polly Harper seems destined for tragedy. Raised by her loving grandparents on Paradise Farm, she is unknowingly tangled in a web of secrecy regarding her parentage. When she falls in love with Tobias, the wealthy son of a local landowner of disrepute, her anxious grandparents send her to work in a dairy. There she is instantly drawn to the handsome Matt Dinsdale, propelling her further into the depths of forbidden romance and dark family...
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2023
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Life is hard on the farm for the Fothergill's. Bob Fothergill has set his sights on buying his own farm instead of renting the one they currently hold. Sally his teenage daughter, wishes her father would see that she could help more with the farm, but he believes that a girl's place is in the home. Ben, their youngest, has no interest in farming so is ignored. Their mother, Ivy, makes do knowing her husband wants what's best for them. But when Bob...
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The death of the family matriarch, Charlotte Atkinson, at Windfell Manor casts a long shadow over Charlotte's husband Archie and her two children, Isabelle and Danny. With big shoes to fill, Isabelle takes over the running of Atkinson's department store but her pride - and heart - is tested when her husband James brings scandal upon the family and the Atkinsons' reputation. Danny's wife Harriet is still struggling to deal with the death of their first...
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When Ethan Postlethwaite, his wife Grace and their daughter Amy announce that they will be leaving the family home in the Yorkshire Dales, Grace's parents are heartbroken. Hoping for a new life prospecting for gold in the wilds of Canada, the Postlethwaites say goodbye and set sail across the Atlantic in search of a brighter future. However, after their hard and treacherous journey, it becomes apparent that the promised riches of the gold fields have...
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2019.
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17-year-old Meg Oversby often dreams of a more exciting life than the dull existence she faces at her family's farm deep in the Yorkshire Dales. Growing up, she's always sensed her father's disappointment at not having a son to help with the farm work. So when Meg dances all night at the local market hall with Sam Alderson, a lead miner from Swaledale, a new light enters her life. Sam and his brother Jack show Meg a side to life she didn't know existed....
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1860: Charlotte Booth loves her father and the home they share, high up in the limestone escarpments of Crummockdale in Yorkshire. But when Joseph Dawson enters their lives, both Charlotte and her father decide he's the man for her, and within six months Charlotte is married to the dashing mill owner from Accrington. Then one of their workers is found dead in the River Ribble - a woman carrying Joseph's child. With the business nearly bankrupt, it...
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Pan Books
Pub. Date
2013
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It is 1870 and railway workers and their families have flocked to the wild and inhospitable moorland known as Batty Green to build a viaduct on the Midland Railway Company's ambitious new Leeds to Carlisle Line. Among them are three very different women - tough widow Molly, honest and God-fearing Mary Pratt, and Helen Parker, downtrodden by her husband and seeking a better life. When tragedy strikes, the lives of the three women are bound together,...
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Abandoned as a baby on the steps of a remote inn, Ruby Blake has been raised by the innkeeper's wife, Martha Metcalfe, unknowing of the family searching for her. One wild stormy night, Ruby is reunited with her long-lost father, who wants to whisk her away to Banksgill Farm for a happy life with her true family. Feeling betrayed by Martha, Ruby follows her father for the chance of a new life. However, Ruby is quickly outcast from her real family for...
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2024
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September 1939. Friends Maggie Shaunessy and Lizzie Taylor are heartbroken to be evacuated from their Liverpool homes to rural Yorkshire. Lizzie is sent to live with a vicar in the village of Gargrave while Maggie finds herself delivered by chauffeur to Hawith Hall and Lady and Lord Bradley. Both the hall and the vicarage are far different to what the girls are used to - and both are very homesick. Though Maggie finds friendship too in the form of...
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Twenty-one years have passed since Charlotte Booth fought to keep Ferndale Mill and her home at Windfell Manor following her traumatic first marriage. Now happily married to her childhood sweetheart, Archie Atkinson, she seeks only the best for their children, Isabelle and Danny. But Danny's head is turned by a local girl of ill repute... Meanwhile, the beautiful and secretive Isabelle shares all the traits of her biological father, the notorious...
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Macmillan
Pub. Date
2020
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After facing the horrors of the Crimean War, Adam Brooksbank returns to Black Moss Farm filled with regret over the path in life he has chosen. Starting anew, he decides to focus on rebuilding his family's rundown farm and make it a home again. Lucy Bancroft lives with her parents on Prospect Terrace which backs onto the local tannery, and is the most beautiful girl in the village. But unfortunately her wealth doesn't match her looks, and she soon...