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A Kiss and a Promise by Katie Flynn
22.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
It is 1917. Virginia Hewson is sixteen and so beautiful that Michael Gallagher, an Irishman fighting with the British Navy, falls in love with her on sight. The Hewson family is horrified but the young couple know their own minds and are set on marriage. Then Virginia has a baby - Stella Margaret - and ...Show more
A Long and Lonely Road by Katie Flynn
22.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Rose McAllister is waiting for her husband, Steve, to come home. He is a seaman, often drunk and violent, but Rose does her best to cope and sees that her daughters, Daisy, 8, and Petal, 4, suffer as little as possible. Steve, however, realises that war is coming and tries to reform, but on his last nig ...Show more
A Mistletoe Kiss by Katie Flynn
39.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
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. Hetty Gilbert is a canal child with no permanent address, so ...Show more
Beyond the Blue Hills by Katie Flynn
6.95 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Laura Collins, a widow, is struggling to make a good life for her daughters, Tess and Tina. They are living with Laura's sister Millie and her seven children so when Laura is offered a good job, with accommodation, she is delighted. Life is very different for the Brewsters, living on Manor Farm in Heref ...Show more
Darkest Before Dawn by Katie Flynn
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
The Todd family are strangers to city life when they move into a flat on the Scotland Road; their previous home was a canal barge. Harry gets a job as warehouse manager and his wife, Martha, works in a grocer's shop, whilst Seraphina trains as a teacher, Angela works in Bunney's Department Store and you ...Show more
Darkest Before Dawn by Katie Flynn
59.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Set in Liverpool, Katie Flynn's new saga bears all the hallmarks of her previous beloved novels. Katie is well-known for the warmth and spirit of her heroines, who face and overcome great adversity during periods of social unrest.
Down Daisy Street by Katie Flynn
22.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
It's 1934 and Kathy Kelling is eleven years old. She has always lived in Daisy Street in Liverpool, the only child of elderly parents. Her best friend is Jane, who has half a dozen brothers and sisters, and her worst enemy is Jimmy McCabe, who lives nearby, the eldest of a large and penniless family. He ...Show more
Heading Home by Katie Flynn
34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Claudia Muldoon and her younger sister, Jenny, live with their parents and their gran in her house in Blodwen Street. Both parents have good jobs and the family assume they are settled for life, but then Grandpa Muldoon has a seizure and begs his son to return to Ireland and the family croft. The Muldoo ...Show more
In Time for Christmas by Katie Flynn
39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Addy and Prue Fairweather live with Nell, their widowed mother, in a flat above her shop on the Scotland Road. The sisters, however, are very different. Addy is dark-haired, plain and always in trouble whereas Prue is flaxen-haired, blue-eyed and as angelic as her looks imply. To make matters worse, Nel ...Show more
Sunshine and Shadows by Katie Flynn
24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Daisy Kildare lives with her family in a cottage perched on the Connemara coast. The Kildares are poor but happy. But when their croft is wrested from them, Daisy's Aunt Jane, who is housekeeper to Dr and Mrs Venables, offers to take Daisy back to Liverpool so that the child can be a companion to her em ...Show more
The Bad Penny by Katie Flynn
21.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Midwife Patty Peel delivers a baby girl in a filthy Liverpool slum dwelling, just as the mother dies. The drunk and violent father tells Patty to get rid of it. She means to deliver the child at an orphanage, but eventually decides to bring it up herself.
The Cuckoo Child by Katie Flynn
24.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
When Dot McCann, playing relievio with her pals, decides to hide in Butcher Rathbone's almost empty dustbin, she overhears a conversation which could send one man to prison and the other to the gallows - and suddenly finds herself in possession of stolen goods. Dot lives with her aunt and uncle, the cuc ...Show more