Mary Hooper
Poppy in the Field
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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(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