Canelo Saga

The House of Hope (The House of Help for Friendless Girls, 1)

By Joanne Clague - Published 2024

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Saga

The word ‘hope’ has a double significance in this novel of 19th-century Sheffield.   The House of Hope is a refuge which takes in ...Read Review

The Runaway Daughter (The Lancashire Girls, 3)

By Libby Ashworth - Published 2023

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Saga

The third book in the Lancashire Girls series, this is a standalone story set in 1818 which keeps its reader engaged as we follow ...Read Review

The Watchman’s Widow (The Sheffield Sagas, 3)

By Joanne Clague - Published 2023

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Saga

Sheffield 1873. Capturing the essence of aspects of daily life when writing historical fiction is key to bringing some realism to the storyline an ...Read Review

A Wartime Summer (The Sisters’ War, 1)

By Rosie Meddon - Published 2022

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Saga

1942, Exeter, England. World War Two is raging. The Luftwaffe has reduced the 21-year-old May Warren’s home to rubble. She has no relations, ...Read Review

The Girl at Change Alley (The Sheffield Sagas, 2)

By Joanne Clague - Published 2022

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Saga

Louisa Leigh reluctantly scrapes a squalid living through prostitution but inadvertently goes further to the bad because her friend Ginny fancies Louisa’s ...Read Review

A Mother’s Fight (The Lancashire Girls Book 2)

By Libby Ashworth - Published 2022

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Saga

1818 Bolton. This second book of The Lancashire Girls series follows Hannah’s struggles to feed her three children. The impoverished wife of a ...Read Review

A New Start for the Wrens

By Vicki Beeby - Published 2022

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Saga

England, 1941. Mortified, after totally misreading a supposed suitor’s intentions, estate heiress Iris Tredwick runs away to sea—well, not exactly. Lured by ...Read Review

The Last Dance of the Debutante

By Julia Kelly - Published 2022

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Saga

Lily Nicholls’ mother and grandmother have both been debutantes at the English court – well-connected young women presented to the Queen. It’s the ...Read Review

Ties That Bind (On the Home Front)

By Rosie Meddon - Published 2022

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Saga

In August 1943, Esme Trevannion is enjoying a romantic lunch in a London hotel not far from her husband Richard’s Whitehall office. The ...Read Review

A Woman of Gallantry

By Elisabeth McNeill - Published 2021

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Saga

Edinburgh, 1788: McNeill’s novel (first published in 1989) begins with the hanging of Deacon William Brodie, apparently upstanding member of the community by day ...Read Review