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Romance and rivalry in London's East End. Business may be healthy for Arthur Milton's Hackney bakery, but the atmosphere behind the counter is tense. Agnes Handly cannot hide her hatred for Arthur's young wife Ellen – a loathing fuelled by the feelings she has long held for the baker. Ellen meanwhile, is starting to have doubts about her relationship with Arthur. When her parents died in a house fire, it was Arthur, her father's best friend, who...
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A tale of frustrated love, passion and anger and in London's East End. Cathy Meadow's return to the East End can only mean one thing: trouble. Barney and Rory have a rivalry that goes back many years; a mutual hatred inflamed by the seductive Cathy. It was she who ended Rory's relationship with the poor but pretty Josie Guntrip, and then broke his heart leaving him for the better-off Barney. Having snagged herself a rich man, no one was expecting...
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Three children must fend for themselves in Victorian London. But there might be a way out…When fifteen-year-old Maggie, her sister Liz and young brother Charlie find themselves tragically orphaned they know their young lives can never be the same again. And when Liz is taken ill, Maggie has to tend to her, and loses what little work she had. In desperation, she ventures onto the streets, risking her safety and her innocence. A mysterious stranger...
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Can love survive the ravages of war? When Emily Ford's kindly employers decide to escape the Zeppelin raids that bedevil Hackney in 1916, the pretty housemaid is delighted to return to her parents for an unexpected break. But the holiday proves anything but peaceful. If finding her mother Nellie in hospital after a savage beating from her husband wasn't enough, Emily's plight deepens when she yields to the advances of Tommy, a young soldier, and becomes...
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She loved two men on different sides of the law... Rose Kennedy was lucky to have two men she could trust. Keeping her job as a barmaid in the East End wasn't easy, but with the support of her sweetheart Jack Adams, a local constable, and Frankie Buchanan, whom she loves like a brother, she dreams of a bright future. But there is no love lost between the men. Hackney is 'Frankie's manor' and because of his protection racket, Jack is determined to...
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Will true love overcome family loyalty? Ruby Chadwick has only ever known life in London's hardscrabble East End. She spends hours playing happily with her two brothers outside their father's pub. But Ruby's world is turned upside down when a moment of disobedience results in a tragic accident, and she must learn to come to terms with the consequences. When the Chadwick family's circumstances unexpectedly change they relocate to salubrious surroundings...
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A city torn apart by war. A family torn apart by tragedy. At the top of Lester Road in London's East End stands 'Paddy's Castle', the three-story, red-bricked Georgian house that is home to Grace Donnelly and her family. Life may be hard in the late 1930s, but it is nothing compared with what is about to follow. Grace's beloved fiancé Stanley decides to enlist in the fight against Nazi Germany. And as the sirens signal blitz after blitz of bombers,...
8) Bow Belles
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A young girl's search for her mother brings danger – and romance Young Kate Browning was beginning to find the strain almost too hard to bear. With her mother Florrie missing, and her spineless father no use at all, it fell to Kate to look after the family. But life in East London at the end of the nineteenth century had never been easy, and with her cruel half-brother Alex becoming more and more difficult, she despaired of ever seeing her beloved...
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From riches to rags – but there's wealth in love… Rebecca Bradford has had more to cope with in her nineteen short years than most people face in a lifetime. Her peaceful childhood in Kent is devastated when her parents and younger brothers are taken by smallpox. When her cousin Richard offers to take her in, it seems an offer too tempting to refuse. But Richard's bedridden sister is in need of constant attention, and when Rebecca moves into...
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A heartwarming family saga set in London's East End from the 1950s to the 1980s. London's East End in the post-war years is an excitement of bustling streets and playground to the Cowley children. A large and loving family, proud of their Irish ancestry, the Cowleys have made their home there, revelling in the vibrancy and activity of post-war London. All except for Marie, the eldest daughter, confined to bed for long months with an illness that overshadows...
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