Beryl Matthews
Beautiful Innocence
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London 1900. The eponymously beautiful Hester, daughter to Lord Stanmore, endures a brutal sexual assault outdoors at a soirée. She swears her assailant ...Read Review
Together Under the Stars
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RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, England, 1943. Four hunky Canadian airmen arrive to help replenish Bomber Command’s depleted stock of flying crew. Pilot hunk Steve ...Read Review
From this Day Forward
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London, 1880. Jane Roberts’ no-good husband runs off with another woman and leaves her in the slums in poverty. She resolves to divorce the ...Read Review
Friends and Enemies
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This novel tells the story of Kathy Hammond, beginning in 1941 when she and her mother flee to an air raid shelter and only ...Read Review
Diamonds in the Dust
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Dora, Tom and Lily Bentley are worried when their mother doesn’t return as usual from her night shift. A widow who has ...Read Review
Hold on to Your Dreams
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In turn-of-the-century London, young Gertie Melrose’s sheltered and comfortable world is shattered when her wayward brother’s gaming debts bring ruin on ...Read Review
The Forgotten Family
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In 1890, Queenie Bonner is a happy and boisterous two-year old living in the slums of London. When she is ‘sold’ by her parents ...Read Review
A Debt from the Past
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Elizabeth Langton and Helen Denton are close childhood friends, now grown up. When Helen’s father commits suicide because of mounting gambling debts, ...Read Review
A New Day
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Two young English siblings, Hanna and Jack Foster, are put into a London orphanage upon the death of their parents. In 1938, lying about ...Read Review
One Step At A Time
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Amy Carter at 14 lived in rented rooms in Wapping, her mother suffering from TB and her father a merchant seaman often away at ...Read Review