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- Location(s): Ryhope
- Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
- Era(s): Early 1920s
‘I hope this Christmas is better than last year’s.’ Following a scandalous affair, wayward Emma Devaney is sent in disgrace from her home in Ireland to Ryhope, where she will live with her widowed aunt, Bessie Brogan, and help...
- Location(s): New York City (NYC), Sunderland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
- Era(s): Late 19th Century
Survival means fighting back. It’s 1890, and Josie Gray is an innocent and beautiful fifteen-year old when Adam McGuigan, the youngest son of a dangerous and influential crime family spots her singing in a Sunderland public house. Adam is...
- Location(s): Ryhope, Sunderland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1919
‘Put me to work on the pit lane, would you? Is that all you think I’m worth?’ When her mother dies in childbirth, Pearl Edwards is left in the care of her aunt, Annie Grafton. Annie loves Pearl like...
- Location(s): Ryhope
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
‘Please, sir, take us both. We only have each other. We don’t know how to live apart.’ After the death of their parents, sisters Poppy and Rose are taken in by widow Nellie Harper. But whilst they have a...
- Location(s): London, Sheffield, Sunderland
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): 1940s
In 1940, a young woman makes a decision that will have repercussions for generations to follow… On the eve of VE Day 1945, six-year-old Alexandra Graham is torn from her comfortable wartime existence in Scotland, to begin an uneasy...
- Location(s): Ryhope
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1919
Belle of the Back Streets is the first of my three novels set in the north-east coal mining village of Ryhope, Sunderland at the end of WW1. ‘Any rag and bone!’ Everyone recognises the cry of Meg Sutcliffe as...
- Location(s): County Donegal, London, Sunderland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Shortlisted for the Portico Prize. When Lucy wins a place at university, she thinks London will unlock her future. It is a city alive with pop up bars, cool girls and neon lights illuminating the Thames at night. At...
- Location(s): Sunderland
- Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
- Era(s): 1941
(The Shipyard Girls Series, 3) Sunderland, 1941 As the world war continues the shipyard girls face hardships at home, but work and friendship give them strength to carry on. Gloria is smitten with her newly arrived bundle of joy,...
The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon
- Location(s): Sunderland, Ryhope, Scarborough
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): Early 20th Century
When a newborn baby girl is found abandoned with nothing but a scarlet ribbon tied to her basket, Ada Davidson, housekeeper of the wealthy McNally family’s home, the Uplands, takes her into her care. Sworn to secrecy about the...
- Location(s): Ryhope, Sunderland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): 1919
‘You’re a Dinsdale lass, Ruby. Nothing and no one keeps us lot down.’ A life of poverty in a cramped pit cottage is all that seventeen-year-old Ruby Dinsdale has known. Even with her father and younger brother working at...
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