Elizabeth Gill
The Miller’s Daughter
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1861, County Durham. When Mary is ten, her father, the village miller, walks out, leaving his wife and four children destitute. Mary’s mother ...Read Review
The Foundling School for Girls
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Set in the mid-1800s in the hills above Newcastle, this novel depicts two very different characters. Ruth Dixon, deserted by her mother ...Read Review
Orphan Boy (The Deerness Series)
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The second in the Deerness series, set in north-east England at the end of the 19th century. The eponymous orphan is Niall McAndrew, ...Read Review
The Coal Miner’s Wife (The Deerness Series)
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This is the second in the Deerness series, set in the industrial north-east of England. It is the turn of the century in ...Read Review
The Quarryman’s Wife
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Set in the north-east of England in the middle of the industrialising 19th century, this is a rather grim saga of personal hardship, ...Read Review
Snow Angels
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It is 1890 in Tyneside, where shipbuilding is in full swing. The mighty liners are in competition to make the transatlantic crossing in luxury, ...Read Review
The Guardian Angel
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Set amidst a background of idyllic northern countryside, themes such as love, forgiveness and hatred are being explored in Elizabeth Gill’s The ...Read Review
Nobody’s Child
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It is Christmastime, and two young sisters are ripped from their travelling life when their mother dies and their father runs off and ...Read Review
Snow Hall
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In 1907 County Durham, Lorna Robson lives in poverty, selling hats. Then Aidan Hedley, handsome solicitor for the Carlyle family, delivers a letter addressed ...Read Review
The Secret
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Little touches of pure magic redeem this complex, end of World War Two family saga. The intertwining of characters’ aims and shared sufferings ...Read Review