Margaret Dickinson

After a family tragedy and a broken engagement dramatically alter her circumstances, Lady Elizabeth Ingham seeks employment by training to be a nanny. Known only as Lizzie, she secures a post at Alstone-in-the-Dale Manor to care for a four-year-old boy.

As the storm clouds of war gather over Britain, two brave young women will discover the value of true friendship as they deal with troubles of their own while the lives of those they love are put at risk....

In Secrets at Bletchley Park by Margaret Dickinson, two young women from very different backgrounds meet in the Second World War and are plunged into a life where security and discretion are paramount. But both have secrets of their own to hide....

In a drunken haze and scarcely realising what he is doing, Eddie takes desperate, bedraggled Anna home, even though his wife is a tyrant, who will believe the worst....

Is it possible for a 10-year-old girl to fall in love? Jenny Mercer thinks so....

Polly Longden's china-doll looks belie a strong and fiery personality. When typhoid strikes her home city of Lincoln, she needs every ounce of that strength in order to cope....

Lincolnshire, 1926. Kate Hilton is devastated when her mother tells her she is to be sent away to boarding school....

It is 1914, and Eveleen Hardcastle, now in in her early thirties, has married Richard....

Charlotte is an only child, reared by a brutal father who cannot forgive her for not being the son he desires....

Fleur Bosley didn't believe in love at first sight, at least not until she bumped into Robbie Rodwell on a railway station in the blackout of wartime Britain....

Hannah Francis has been forced to leave her beloved mother and the life she knows in the silk mill town of Macclesfield and is set to become an apprentice at a cotton mill in the Derbyshire dales....

Lincolnshire, 1910. Shunned by her own family, desperate for work and a place to stay, Esther Everatt walks through the night to Sam Brumby's farm....

Thwarted in her desire to become a doctor like her brother, Robert, Pips Maitland rebels against her mother's wishes that she settle down and raise children....

A matter of honour. A sense of duty. A time for courage....

Rose and Myrtle Sylvester look up to their older sister, Peggy. She is the sensible, reliable one in the household of women headed by their grandmother, Grace Booth, and their mother, Mary Sylvester....

It is the 1930s, and the Maitland family have spent the years following the Great War struggling to come to terms with its catastrophic aftermath, and their hopes now lie with the next generation....

It is the early 1920s, and the Maitland family are still coming to terms with the aftermath of the Great War....

Emily Ryan has gone up in the world since her arrival in Sheffield. Brought there by her mother's ambitious schemes for her brother, Josh, she had found work as a buffer girl....

When Florrie Maltby defies her father by refusing to marry Gervase Richards, she sets off a chain of events that will alter her life....

There are some things which even the closest friendship cannot survive....