1939, Europe on the brink of war. Lily Shepherd leaves England on an ocean liner for Australia, escaping her life of drudgery for new horizons. She is instantly seduced by the world onboard: cocktails, black-tie balls and beautiful sunsets. Suddenly, Lily finds herself mingling with people who would otherwise never give her the time of day. But soon she realizes her glamorous new friends are not what they seem. The rich and hedonistic Max and Eliza...

When Dottie's husband Reg receives a mysterious letter through the post, Dottie has no idea that this letter will change her life forever. Traumatised by his experiences fighting in World War II, Reg isn't the same man that Dottie remembers when he is demobbed and returns home to their cottage in Worthing. Once caring and considerate, Reg has become violent and cruel. Dottie just wants her marriage to work but nothing she does seems to work. The letter...

A family story following an English couple coming home from India in 1944 and attempting to make their way in a changed Britain.

The great house of Cavendon Hall has a new generation of children playing in its halls and gardens. After the ravages of the Great War and the Great Depression, the future looks assured for the first time in a decade. But over Europe the storm clouds of war are gathering. And it must be the estate's younger generation who step forward to play their part and fight for their country, young men and women from both above and below stairs. Tracing the...

Including previously unpublished diaries, records and photographs, this title tells the whole story of the preparations Britain made to guard against a Nazi invasion.

London, 1939. When tragedy strikes, Libby Andrews is left homeless and destitute, fending for herself on the capital's most dangerous streets. Desperate times call for desperate measures, and Libby is on the cusp of making a decision that could jeopardise her future when a local boy saves her from ruin. The kindness of this stranger sets her on a different path, and Libby heads to Liverpool with a determined mind and hope in her heart. There, she...

In 1946, Alice Quigley returns to her childhood home on Penny Lane, having lost her house in Bootle and three sisters to the bombs that fell over Liverpool. Estranged from her husband Dan, who suffered from two strokes triggered during the Blitz, she finds comfort in living closer to her remaining sister, Nellie, and a cast of new neighbours. But they too have problems of their own: Vera Corcoran fears for her life at the hands of an abusive husband...

1949. Attractive and spirited Roz Rainey lives in post-war Edinburgh and dreams, not of love, but of one day having a beautiful house of her own. When she falls in love with her new boss, the charming Jamie Shield, it seems as though a blissful future beckons for Roz. Fate, however, has other ideas.

This is a heart-wrenching war time novel of shame, betrayal, loyalty and love. In England in the 1930s, eighteen-year-old Helen Carstairs braves the prejudice of friends and family to marry Heine, the young German photographer who has fled the growing horror of the Nazis. But when war breaks out Heine is interned, their small son is evacuated and Helen is left to face the Blitz alone.

Wharton Park estate is undergoing renovation under Kit Crawford, and when an old diary is found, Julia Forrester, together with the charismatic Kit, seek out her grandmother to learn the truth behind a love affair that almost destroyed Wharton Park in the 1940s.