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Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Sagas
The Orphanage Girls is a gritty and moving historical saga about an
orphanage in London's East End, from the bestselling author of The
Jam Factory Girls, Mary Wood. Children deserve a family to call
their own. Ruth dares to dream of another life - far away from the
horrors within the walls of Bethnal Green's infamous orphanage.
Luckily she has her friends, Amy and Ellen - but she can't keep
them safe, and the suffering is only getting worse. Surely there
must be a way out of here? But when Ruth breaks free from the
shackles of confinement and sets out into East London, hoping to
make a new life for herself, she finds that, for a girl with
nowhere to turn, life can be just as tough on the outside. Bett
keeps order in this unruly part of the East End - and takes Ruth
under her wing alongside orphanage escapee Robbie. But it is
Rebekah, a kindly woman, who offers Ruth and Robbie a home -
something neither have ever known. Yet even these two stalwart
women cannot protect them when the police learn of an orphan on the
run. It is then that Ruth must do everything in her power to hide.
Her life - and those of the friends she left behind at the
orphanage - depend on it. Continue the emotional series with The
Orphanage Girls Reunited.
July 1947. Britain is still gripped by rationing, even as the
excitement of Princess Elizabeth's engagement sweeps the nation. In
the Woolworths' canteen, Freda is still dreaming of meeting her own
Prince Charming. So far she's been unlucky in love. When she has an
accident on her motorbike, knocking a cyclist off his bicycle, it
seems bad luck is still following her around. Anthony is not only a
fellow Woolworths employee but was an Olympic hopeful. Will his
injured leg heal in time for him to compete? Can he ever forgive
Freda? Sarah's idyllic family life is under threat with worries
about her husband, Alan. Does he still love her? The friends must
rally round to face some of the toughest challenges of their lives
together. And although they experience loss, hardship and shocks
along the way, love is on the horizon for the Woolworths girls . .
. Wedding Bells for Woolworths is the fifth instalment in Elaine
Everest's much-loved Woolworths series.
* Longlisted for the HWA Debut Crown Longlist 2022 * 'A stunning
achievement' TLS 'Unforgettable' Nguyen Phan Que Mai, author of The
Mountains Sing As the Korean independence movement gathers pace,
two children meet on the streets of Seoul. Fate will bind them
through decades of love and war. They just don't know it yet. It is
1917, and Korea is under Japanese occupation. With the threat of
famine looming, ten-year-old Jade is sold by her desperate family
to Miss Silver's courtesan school in the bustling city of
Pyongyang. As the Japanese army tears through the country, she is
forced to flee to the southern city of Seoul. Soon, her path
crosses with that of an orphan named JungHo, a chance encounter
that will lead to a life-changing friendship. But when JungHo is
pulled into the revolutionary fight for independence, Jade must
decide between following her own ambitions and risking everything
for the one she loves. Sweeping through five decades of Korean
history, Juhea Kim's sparkling debut is an intricately woven tale
of love stretched to breaking point, and two people who refuse to
let go.
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Trinity
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Leon Uris
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Ida's shadow rose erect, and her black-eyed gaze, calm as the eye
of the hurricane, rested on Geneva's face. 'Who's the father?
Geneva gripped the sheets more tightly, her eyes blurring, her mind
struggling to imagine the consequences of answering her question.
Victor was in the war. The children were in Massachusetts. Her mind
could focus no better than her eyes. Her whole body seized up as
another wave of pain engulfed her. 'He can be made to take
responsibility, you know. Tell me, said Ida. No. Geneva turned her
face aside. She would write a letter to Massachusetts. Please
forward. Victor would come home. Then they would face Ida and John
Scarborough and the rest of the world, together. 'Well, are you
going to tell me? 'N-no. I-I can take care of it. Victor could be
here before John Scarborough could make her do anything. Please God
'Um-hum. Was it, by chance, my brother? Dear God. 'Tell me girl, or
I give you my word, I won't help you. Geneva felt Victor had
delivered her into the hands of a monster. 'Suzanne Morris excels
in providing new dimensions to conventional narrative. -Dallas
Morning News 'Suzanne Morris writes with all the bark off.
dilemmas. She lets the presence of the past lean upon her
unsuspecting characters. -Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch
Secrets of the Singer Girls is Kate Thompson's heartwarming and
moving novel about the brave, hardworking women who kept the
homefires burning in the East End of London during World War Two.
1942. Sixteen-year-old Poppy Percival turns up at the gates of
Trout's clothing factory in Bethnal Green with no idea what her new
life might have in store. There to start work as a seamstress and
struggling to get to grips with the noise, dirt and devastation of
East London, Poppy can't help but miss the quiet countryside of
home. But Poppy harbours a dark secret - one that wrenched her away
from all she knew and from which she is still suffering . . . And
Poppy's not the only one with a secret. Each of her new friends at
the factory is hiding something painful. Vera Shadwell, the
forelady, has had a hard life with scars both visible and
concealed; her sister Daisy has romantic notions that could get her
in trouble; and Sal Fowler, a hardworking mother who worries about
her two evacuated boys for good reason. Bound by ties of
friendship, loyalty and family, the devastating events of the war
will throw each of their lives into turmoil but also bring these
women closer to each other than they could ever have imagined.
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Just Mercy
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Dorothy Van Soest
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Zack Webb had been abandoned by his mother when he was no more than
a week old. She placed him among some quilts that were in Clayton
Leon and Grandma Sally Rickett''s wagon. Not knowing what to do
with the child, they took him home gave him a name and rasied him
as their own. When he was fifteen years old, he joined General
Lee''s confederate army. But now he was going back home and
everything would be good again. Or would it? Some men marched home
from the war to find their homes or farms burned out and their
family gone. Some of the wives, being left alone, packed what they
could carry and went back home to their fathers house. So, the men
became angry and become lawless. Many of them caught on with a
wagon train and went west to become gun-slingers and outlaws. But
Zack found his home to be just like he had left it and at the
tender age of nineteen, he hoped to make a good life and forget
about the war. But that would not be an easy task. Trouble came at
him from every direction.
A 2012 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * One of The New
York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of 2012 * One of TIME's Top
10 Fiction Books of 2012 * One of The Wall Street Journal's Best 10
Fiction Books of 2012 * A New York Times and Washington Post
Notable Book of 2012 "[NW] is that rare thing, a book that is
radical and passionate and real." -Anne Enright, The New York Times
Book Review "A triumph . . . As Smith threads together her
characters' inner and outer worlds, every sentence sings." -The
Guardian "A powerful portrait of class and identity in
multicultural London." -Entertainment Weekly Set in northwest
London, Zadie Smith's brilliant tragicomic novel follows four
locals-Leah, Natalie, Felix, and Nathan-as they try to make adult
lives outside of Caldwell, the council estate of their childhood.
In private houses and public parks, at work and at play, these
Londoners inhabit a complicated place, as beautiful as it is
brutal, where the thoroughfares hide the back alleys and taking the
high road can sometimes lead you to a dead end. Depicting the
modern urban zone-familiar to city-dwellers everywhere-NW is a
quietly devastating novel of encounters, mercurial and vital, like
the city itself.
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Misled
(Paperback, 2nd New edition)
Kathryn C Kelly; Cover design or artwork by Crystal Cuffley; Contributions by TEBlack Designs
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Hampshire, 1900. With the sudden death of her father, the life of
fifteen-year-old Harriet Benson changes forever. Forced from her
home to escape the advances of her leering stepbrother Norris,
Harriet is sent into service to provide for the family. Arriving at
the grand Dalton House, she meets the owners' crippled son Joseph,
with whom friendship soon blossoms. When circumstances force Joseph
to leave the family home, Harriet is happy to accompany him and
break free from the controlling influence of her stepmother. But
Harriet is unprepared for the event which will alter her life even
further: her unexpected inheritance of Greyladies, a supposedly
haunted house in the country. Could this be the safe haven she so
desperately needs, and does the ghost of its previous owner really
roam the halls? While Harriet and Joseph grow ever closer, the
plots and actions of both their families threaten to destroy their
happiness. Will their love, and the legacy of Greyladies, be able
to survive?
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