Beryl Matthews

Beautiful Innocence

By Beryl Matthews - Published 2023

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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

By Beryl Matthews - Published 2021

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Saga

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

By Beryl Matthews - Published 2021

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Saga

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

By Beryl Matthews - Published 2019

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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

By Beryl Matthews - Published 2015Published c2007

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Mystery/Crime

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

By Beryl Matthews - Published 2015Published c2009

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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

By Beryl Matthews - Published 2006 (US)Published 2015 (UK)

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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

By Beryl Matthews - Published 2013

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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

By Beryl Matthews - Published 2012

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Romance

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

By Beryl Matthews - Published 2006

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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