Mary Hooper

Poppy in the Field

By Mary Hooper - Published 2015

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

December 1915. Poppy Pearson loves working as a V.A.D. at Netley Hut hospital in Southampton, nursing wounded soldiers brought back from France. ...Read Review

Poppy

By Mary Hooper - Published 2014

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMilitary

Christmas, 1914, the country is at war. But for Poppy Pearson, parlourmaid to the de Veres, life goes on as normal; except that young ...Read Review

The Disgrace of Kitty Grey

By Mary Hooper - Published 2013

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

1813. Dairymaid Kitty Grey loves her work at Bridgeford Hall, and her heart beats fast for the young ferryman, Will, who she is sure ...Read Review

Velvet

By Mary Hooper - Published 2012

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Having read Fallen Grace and enjoyed it thoroughly, I leapt at the chance to review Velvet. Velvet works hard as a laundress in ...Read Review

Velvet

By Mary Hooper - Published 2011

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

Velvet has a secret within her past. Worse still, she is in danger of losing her livelihood in Ruffold’s Steam Laundry, because ...Read Review

Fallen Grace

By Mary Hooper - Published 2010

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Grace Parkes is about to give birth. She is fifteen, single, orphaned, poor and living in Victorian London in 1861. Resigned to the fate ...Read Review

The Betrayal

By Mary Hooper - Published 2009

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

As the novel begins we are straight away in the world of Elizabethan London as Lucy waits with her two young charges, Beth ...Read Review

Newes from the Dead

By Mary Hooper - Published 2009

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

1650. This is based on the true story of Anne Green, a young, naïve maidservant who is taken in by a young gentleman, ...Read Review

By Royal Command

By Mary Hooper - Published 2008

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

Elizabethan England. In this sequel to At the House of the Magician, Lucy, maid to the queen’s magician Dr Dee, is now ...Read Review

In the House of the Magician

By Mary Hooper - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

(1) 1570s, Elizabethan England. When country girl Lucy flees from her drunken father and sets off to London to find work, she has no ...Read Review