Katie Flynn
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Maddy lives with her grandmother in a tumbledown farmhouse in the Yorkshire Dales. The house has been in the family for generations, but her grandmother is struggling to cope. Determined that no matter what happens, the two of them will not be forced into the workhouse. Though life is tough, Maddy manages to gain a scholarship to the local school. As war is declared, Maddy and her friends join up, leaving the beautiful Dales for the dangerous work...
Author
Publisher
Century
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Miranda Lovage and her mother have a blazing row when Arabella tells her daughter that she can no longer afford their present lifestyle. Miranda goes to be angry and upset and is awoken at midnight by a strange sound, but when it is not repeated she goes back to sleep. When she awakes next morning, however, it is to find that her mother has disappeared.
Author
Publisher
Arrow
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
It was only a mistletoe kiss, Miss Preece told herself, stepping out into the icy December evening and locking the library doors behind her. A mistletoe kiss means nothing, everyone knows that; but this did not quench the warm glow inside her.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Trewin and his little sister are devastated by their mother's death and horrified to find themselves entrusted to the far from tender care of a hated neighbour, Mrs Huxtable. They hope their father will rescue them when his ship comes into port but this does not happen and when Cyril Huxtable is seen by the children hiding 'a wad of notes' away, a wad which subsequently disappears, they realise they are in deep trouble. Cyril accuses them of...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Liverpool 1938. It's Christmas in the Courts, and single mother Rosheen Clarke and her mischievous twin daughters April and May have no idea of the cataclysmic events which will soon overtake them. When war is declared, April and May are evacuated to the countryside and Rosheen joins the WAAF where she befriends fellow Liverpudlian Cassie Valentine. While Rosheen worries about what trouble the twins will cause next, Cassie is fighting her love for...
Author
Publisher
Arrow
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In September 1939, 14-year-old Vinny Matthews leaves Liverpool to go and live with an elderly aunt on the Isle of Anglesey. At first Vinny hates everything about Wales and the farm, and she especially dislikes her Aunt Non, an embittered former teacher who is determined to further Vinny's education.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
December, 1938. Rozalin Sachs has grown up in the vibrant city of Frankfurt. But with the Nazi Revolution gaining power, her family is forced to flee Germany. When a tragic accident separates Roz from her parents, she finds herself aboard the Kindertransport bound for Holland. Here Roz meets a young lad called Felix and they vow to stick together as their journey takes them to England. Eventually they find themselves in Liverpool with the promise...
10) The runaway
Author
Publisher
Arrow
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Running away from her comfortable home in Ireland, a young girl struggles to survive in Liverpool as war approaches.
14) Still waters
Author
Publisher
Arrow Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Set on the atmospheric Norfolk Broads during the Second World War, this novel tells of Tess Delamere and her relationship with an Australian man named Mal Chandler.
15) No silver spoon
Author
Publisher
Arrow Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Dympna Byrnes lives a simple life with her family on the Connemara coast. She adores her father Micheál, and does her best to help her family by working hard and expecting little.
But beneath the surface there are hidden secrets. Dympna’s mother idolises her clever eldest son, yet her attitude to Dympna is puzzling. So when her family find themselves in desperate need of money, it is Dympna who crosses the water to Liverpool to seek a better life....
16) Rainbow's end
Author
Publisher
Mandarin
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
The sixth novel from the bestselling author of Strawberry Fields and A Liverpool Lass, Rainbow's End is set in Dublin and Liverpool in the early 1900s, and moves on to the First World War.