She longed to be reunited with her family. The compelling new novel from the "Sunday Times" bestselling author of "The Workhouse Girl."
Stella Barry is forced into service as a kitchen maid when her father dies at sea and the family find themselves in straitened circumstances. Leaving her mother and younger brother and sister in Limehouse, Stella goes to a big country house outside London. A year later, having not seen them in all that time, she walks to London with a cake for her mother for mothering Sunday. But she discovers they have disappeared. Thrown out of their lodgings no one...

The heartwarming new novel from the "Sunday Times" bestselling author of "A Loving Family."
From the age of eight, sixteen-year-old Charity Crosse has been living rough with her grandfather and begging on the streets.
When he grandfather passes away, Charity is helped by a kindly doctor who introduces her to bookseller, Jethro Dawkins. Jethro 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 when her grandmother taught her to...

This is the wonderfully nostalgic and heartwarming new novel from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of The Beggar Maid. Born out of wedlock when her mother was only fourteen, Lucy Pocket has spent all her life in the care of her disreputable but charming grandmother, Eva. They dodge from one poor lodging house to another, always in debt and resorting to theft in order to exist. Until her wealthy paternal grandfather buys her from Eva, determined to bring Lucy up to be a lady. When her grandfather dies, his despicable nephew cheats Lucy out of her inheritance, except for a run-down...

Born out of wedlock when her mother was only fourteen, Lucy Pocket has spent all her life in the care of her disreputable but charming grandmother, Eva. They dodge from one poor lodging house to another, always in debt. Until her wealthy paternal grandfather buys her from Eva, determined to bring Lucy up to be a lady.

Motherless since she was five, 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 a house of ill-repute.

The heartwarming new novel from Dilly Court, the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of The Beggar Maid.

For Ruby and Rosetta Capretti life in the slums of the East End holds little promise. Although very similar in looks they dream of very different futures. Coquettish, flamboyant Rosetta is desperate to leave the claustrophobic confines of the sewing sweatshop to follow in her wayward aunt's footsteps and work under the lights of the music hall.

The brand new compelling novel from the Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly Court.