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It is chastening to consider how easily fate can change our lives. For Suki Brown, one small decision has a lifetime of consequences. Working as a wetnurse for a posh family, Suki makes a heartbreaking decision when their baby dies to switch her own child for the one who passed. Husband-less and nearly destitute, Suki must find the father of her child before she loses her son forever. But the cad, Captain Jack, is off aboard the Bonny Beaufoy ...

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The Jackson family's peaceful south London life is shattered when World War Two breaks out.Sixteen-year-old Mary is immediately evacuated, and the rest of the family sets about combining daily life with wartime duties in the nation's capital.The war is gruelling and heart-breaking for Londoners, and Rosie and Jim Jackson are no exception. But their close family bonds and the warmth of friends and neighbours see them through, as the ups and dow...

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As the Great War comes to a close, a new age dawns on London...Spoiled and stubborn, Anna Pelucci gets everything she wants. Doted on by her Italian father, she has more gowns than she can count and more suitors than she needs - but nothing is ever enough.Across town in south London, the young Mary Chapman leads a very different sort of life. Struggling through poverty, Mary is eager to make her life rich in more meaningful ways.But as the two...

A quartet of paintings hang in the gallery. The artist now famous, his subject long forgotten: nobody of consequence...Sent into service at the tender age of twelve, Rosie Goodison learns just how unfair the world really is. Some people work their entire lives and have little to show for it, while others do nothing and seem to have it all.Full of courage and gumption, Rosie can say for certain that this isn't type of world she wants to live in...

But of course, Marianne thought. It was the obvious answer. She would have to join the navy and go after him. It was the only thing to do.It's 1803 in Portsmouth, England and after a blissful wedding day, Marianne Morris should have everything she ever wanted. But when a spat in their bridal suite ends with her new husband Jem stalking off, she's not so sure she'll get her happily ever after.When she discovers that he has abandoned her to join...

London, 1890: Alberto Pelucci is young and wide-eyed when he steps off the boat from Italy and into the bustling heart of London. Dreaming of adventure and romance, he is determined to fall in love and find an English wife. And when Alberto meets the beautiful, but shy, Alice, it seems his dreams have come true.Blinded by the excitement of first love, Alberto doesn't see that his new bride may not share his passion. Left brooding in a lonely m...

The Jackson family's peaceful south London life is shattered when World War Two breaks out. Sixteen-year-old Mary is immediately evacuated and the rest of the family sets about combining daily life with war-time duties in the nation's capital.

Jane was fifteen, pregnant, and abandoned by her sweetheart and seducer, George Hudson, when she fled her small Yorkshire village in disgrace. She makes her way in the world and raises her daughter Milly with love. All the while swearing to one day take revenge on the cruel man who deserted her. Years later, Jane and Milly manage to find work together... work that just happens to be in the Hudson household. When George and Jane cross paths aga...

Nobody is to know where we are. You must forget England. That part of your lives is over.' Twins Ginny and Emily Holborn have everything they could ever need in their Wolverhampton home: a loving family, a garden to play in, and staff waiting to attend to their every need. Until, one summer day in 1926, they disappear without a trace. Ten years later, bright-eyed solicitor Charlie Commoner is given his first job: track down the still-missing H...

Rose's life is about to be torn apart by war, but can she and her sisters piece together a new life in a rapidly changing world?London, 1914: Rose Boniface and her orphaned siblings live a small but happy life in South-East London. But when war breaks out across Europe and her older brother enlists, nothing will ever be the same again.As men leave for the war in droves, the girls must take on whatever work they can find to make ends meet. High...

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It is 1936 and the headmistress at Roehampton Secondary School, pioneer and suffragette Octavia Smith, is steering her pupils towards success as her exemplary girls' school moves from strength to strength. But as Europe rumbles towards war, Octavia finds herself caught up in covert plans to rescue Jewish families from the Nazi advance.

Born in 1800, George Hudson rose from farmer's son to the rich and powerful Lord Mayor of York - friend to royalty and owner of half of the railways in the kingdom. But Hudson was driven by greed as well as ambition and dark secret lurked within his past - a youthful indiscretion...and an illegitimate child.

My dearest Annie, I do believe I ve stumbled upon a mystery concerning our William Blake...