Margaret Dickinson

A Mother's Sorrow is a heart-rending family drama set around WW1 from bestselling author and Queen of the Saga, Margaret Dickinson. Three young women. Two families united. A bond that can?t be broken . . . Sheffield, 1892. Patrick Halliday rules his family with a rod of iron. He?s hard on both his wife and his elder daughter, Flora, but he spoils his youngest, Mary Ellen, because she reminds him of his beloved mother. When Mary Ellen, aged seventeen,...

Following the disastrous floods of 1953, Ella Hilton is compelled to live at Brumbys' Farm with her grandmother, Esther, and is soon acutely aware of the mystery surrounding her family's past. As Ella grows up and falls in love herself, the story of three generations of women - Esther, Kate, and Ella - comes full circle and history seems destined to repeat itself in tragedy.

Paperback edition of the latest saga by the bestselling author, set in Lincolnshire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, in the run-up to WWI. Also available in hardback this month.

Hannah Francis's singing brightens the days of those around her in the workhouse. Even when she is separated from her mother & forced to travel to Derbyshire with three other children to work in a cotton mill, Hannah is undaunted. Life for the pauper apprentices is arduous & dangerous, but friendships are forged & love blossoms.