Elizabeth Gill

An Orphan’s Wish (Blessed St Hilda’s Orphanage)

By Elizabeth Gill - Published 2022

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Saga

Set in the north east of England, the novel begins at Christmas 1900, with Flo and Joshua Butler preparing for their usual solitary festive ...Read Review

The Miller’s Daughter

By Elizabeth Gill - Published 2021

Genres:

Saga

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

By Elizabeth Gill - Published 2019

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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)

By Elizabeth Gill - Published 2018

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Saga

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)

By Elizabeth Gill - Published 2018

Genres:

Saga

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

By Elizabeth Gill - Published 2018

Genres:

Saga

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

By Elizabeth Gill - Published 2017

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Saga

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

By Elizabeth Gill - Published 2017

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Saga

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

By Elizabeth Gill - Published 2016

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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

By Elizabeth Gill - Published 2010

Genres:

Saga

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