Dilly Court
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English
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Stella Barry is forced into service as a kitchen maid when her father dies at sea and the family find themselves living hand-to-mouth. Leaving her mother and younger brother and sister in the slums of London's docklands, Stella goes to a big country house outside London. A year later, having not seen them in all that time, Stella walks to London with a cake for her mother for mothering Sunday. But she discovers the family has disappeared.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Phoebe Giamatti lives with her boisterous Italian family in the heart of London's East End. Phoebe's father was killed in gang warfare and she and her family share a deep hatred for the Paxman brothers - whose lawless ways strike terror into the whole community.
Despite her English mother's feckless ways, Phoebe is fiercely protective of Annie. Then just as the family are about to go to Italy for the winter, Phoebe discovers Annie is in trouble -...
Author
Publisher
Arrow
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
In the quiet of a warm summer's evening, two young mothers are forced to give up their babies. Whilst Kate grows up knowing only poverty and servitude, Josie's world is one of privilege and luxury. Despite the differences in their circumstances, Kate and Josie have been friends since childhood.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Motherless since she was two, Mirabel Cutler was raised by her father to be a lady. But when he dies suddenly, Mirabel finds herself cast out on the street by her ruthless stepmother. She is taken to a place of refuge by charismatic sea captain, Jack Starke. But the safe haven turns out to be house of ill-repute. Here she becomes a parlour maid and catches the eye of an elderly, retired army officer, Hubert Kettle. Mirabel has fallen in love with...
Author
Publisher
Arrow
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Despite her privileged upbringing, Daisy Lennox has always longed to make something of her life. She is drawn to the suffragette movement, but when her father faces ruin they are forced to move to the country and Daisy's first duty is to her family.
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Series
The river maid volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
This third instalment in the }River Maid{ series finds Rose taking on a position as a typist in an increasingly modern London that proves to be a treacherous place for a young woman.
8) Ragged Rose
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English
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1875: Rose and her little sister, Cora, are known in London's East End as The Sunshine Sisters. But they're hiding a secret - one that could see them turned out on the streets without a penny to their name. When their brother is sent to prison for a crime that he didn't commit, it signals the start of the family's woes. Cora finds herself caught up in an illicit relationship with a cad and is thrown out by their strict father. As the family is hit...
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Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Clara held onto the precious button, glimmering like a jewel in the dark alleyways of London's notorious Seven Dials. She needed to save her family. but who was going to save her? There was a time when the Carter sisters' father was their hero. Now he's a drunk who's gambled away everything they had and put them all in peril. It's on Clara's shoulders to save the 4 sisters from destitution. Clutching her precious button box, the only thing of value...
10) Nettie's secret
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Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Taking one last look around her attic room in Covent Garden Nettie knows there is no turning back, they must run for their lives…
London, 1875. Thanks to her hapless father, Nettie Carroll has had to grow up quickly. While Nettie is sewing night and day to keep food on the table, her gullible father has trusted the wrong man again. Left with virtually nothing but the clothes they stand up in, he’s convinced that their only hope lies across the...
Author
Publisher
Arrow
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Lily Larkin is the youngest of six and the least important member of her talented, argumentative, temperamental family. With their father dead and their mother a stranger to them, she must stay at home and keep house whilst her elder siblings go out to work. Lily's head is full of dreams but soon her life changes forever.
Author
Publisher
Arrow Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Circumstances force eight-year-old Sarah Scrase and her widowed mother Ellen to enter a workhouse in Bloomsbury. When Ellen dies in childbirth, Sarah falls foul of the Master and his cruel wife. But at that moment philanthropist James Arbuthnot takes her into his home.
13) The beggar maid
Author
Publisher
Arrow Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From the age of eight, sixteen-year-old Charity Crosse has been living rough with her grandfather and begging on the streets. When her grandfather passes away, Charity is helped by a kindly doctor who introduces her to bookseller, Jethro Dawkins. He takes Charity in to help in his bookshop and keep house in their one room behind the shop. Charity sleeps under the counter and is not well treated, but Jethro instills in her the love of books that began...
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Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
She turned the picture of the Christmas card over with her frozen hands, a pretty picture of a family gathering at Yuletide. How different from her own life. When her father dies leaving Alice and her ailing mother with only his debts, the two grieving women are forced to rely on the begrudging charity of cruel Aunt Jane. Determined to rid herself of an expensive responsibility, Jane tries forcing Alice into a monstrous marriage. And when Alice refuses,...
16) Snow bride
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Series
Rockwood chronicles volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Nancy seems to have found her happily ever after. She is surrounded by family and engaged to marry the man of her dreams. But when her fiance's father insists they wait a year to prove that their love is true, the young couple's feelings are put to the test. The path of true love never runs smooth, but as the snow begins to fall, Nancy will need to trust her heart for her Christmas wishes to come true.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
East-End London, 1858. In London's twisting streets, it's hard to tell friend from foe. And for Katherine Martin, arriving back in London after years away, the city is far crueller than she remembers. Her eyes opened to the plight of London's poor, Kate is determined to do what she can to help - even if it means defying her parents. In secret, she opens a soup kitchen. But there is a world of criminals within London's poorest alleys. Catching the...
18) The lucky penny
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Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Clinging tightly to the penny in her palm, Flora's fortune was about to change. Flora is forever grateful for the day the Stewart family rescued her from her life of poverty on London's streets. Adopted as one of their own, she shed her rags and was finally given a place to call home. When a twist of fate calls her back to the cobbles, Flora's new life is torn apart. Flora must make her own way if she is ever to find where she truly belongs.
19) Winter wedding
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Series
Rockwood chronicles volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Don't miss the second book in the brand-new six-part series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!
20) Runaway widow
Author
Series
Rockwood chronicles volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When Lady Patricia Greystone's husband dies suddenly, she is left with nothing. At twenty-four, she finds herself a penniless widow. Determined not to return to her family cap in hand, she strikes out on her own. In the rougher parts of London, Patricia's voice is her only hope. She makes her living singing at inns and on the streets. But a dangerous figure from her family's past is lurking in the shadows, and before long she finds herself fleeing...