Showing results for "Family Life" in Victorian

Twenty-one years have passed since Charlotte Booth fought to keep Ferndale Mill and her home at Windfell Manor following her traumatic first marriage. Now, highly regarded in local society and happily married to her childhood sweetheart, Archie Atkinson, she seeks only the best for their children, Isabelle and Danny. But history has a habit of repeating itself, and Danny's head is turned by a local girl of ill repute, despite his promise of marriage to the far more respectable Harriet Armstrong.

Set deep in the Yorkshire Dales, Diane Allen’s A Child of the Dales is a sweeping novel of family, deceit, separation and love. Abandoned as a baby on the steps of a remote inn, Ruby Blake has been raised by the innkeeper’s wife, Martha Metcalfe, unknowing of the family searching for her...

The heartbreaking and compelling new audiobook set in a Victorian workhouse from the author of The Orphans of Halfpenny Street. When Lucy and her brother, Joshua, are orphaned, it falls to Joshua to provide for them both, but he is barely into his teens and, in his naivety, falls prey to bad influences and drink. Lucy is desperate to avoid the workhouse, but when Joshua loses their meagre savings they are thrown out onto the street, and, in dire poverty, it isn’t long before Lucy finds herself at its gates - almost a fate worse than death.

The stunning first instalment in The Breckton Novels, To Catch a Dream by Mary Wood tells the tragic tale of Bridie O'Hara, as she struggles to overcome her misfortune. Can she follow her dreams when she has lost everything? Young Bridie O'Hara is torn away from her native Ireland by her father...

Eine alte Villa. Eine große Liebe. Ein dunkles Geheimnis. Die Staatsanwältin Melody Stewart flüchtet vor ihren beruflichen und privaten Problemen in die Vergangenheit. Im idyllischen Stockmill hat sie ein Haus geerbt und folgt mit Dan Rashleigh den verschlungenen Wegen der gemeinsamen Familiengeschichte. Dreh- und Angelpunkt dabei ist ihre Vorfahrin, die mutige Lady Abigail Hampton, die bereit war, aus Liebe alles zu opfern. Um ihren Geliebten Oliver Rashleigh vor der Hinrichtung zu retten, floh sie im Jahr 1843 mit ihm nach New York.