Elizabeth Gill

A gripping new emotional saga from the author of A Sister's Dream. 1950: Seventeen-year-old Josephine Cliffe and her younger sister, Eliza, have the perfect lives, wanting for nothing in the huge house they live in with their parents in Sydney, Australia. But when her father's mining company...

All Mary wants to do is protect her family. But how can she, when their father keeps tearing it apart? Grieving for their mother and abandoned by their father, Mary and her siblings seek refuge at the foundling school. But the school has its own struggles....

Emma Appleby's arrival in the County Durham village of Tow Law is sudden and mysterious, provoking deep suspicion in the locals....

1920, Durham. Since she was a child, Lucy Charlton has dreamed of working with her father in the family solicitor's firm....

When little Ella's grandmother dies, she is turned out of her home and forced into a life of cruel labour....

After Ruth Dixon's mother deserts her on Christmas Eve, her father comes home drunk and commits an unthinkable act....

Prue's heart beat hard - she had heard of the low seams of the mines of Northwest Durham, and she had always had a fear of being enclosed....

Alice Lee, middle-aged and unmarried, is the only volunteer when the minister asks his congregation to help young Zebediah Bailey. Zeb is in prison for a ghastly crime....

Kath walked for so long that she wanted to lie down in the snow and sleep, but she thought of her sister and knew she must go on....

1915. As a child it never mattered to Blake that he hasdno mother, that no one knew who his father was....