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This is the first book in a series set in and around the Brownlow Hill workhouse in Liverpool in the middle of the nineteenth century.
Abandoned on the doorstep of the workhouse as a baby Angelina is adopted by a wealthy couple. But will this be the happy outcome it seems?
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Driven onto the street by her step mother, Dora’s only recourse is the Workhouse. But even here she finds a way to use her healing powers. When the opportunity arises to train at the famous Nightingale School for Nurses she seizes it with both hands.
Brought up in the Workhouse, Patty’s talent as a baker offers her a way to a new life. But when she allows her head to be turned by a handsome man she risks losing everything she has worked for.Click the picture to read more.
FIRST WORLD WAR
Leo and Victoria are desperate to escape the restrictions of upper class society, so when they learn that the Women’s Sick and Wounded Convoy, under the leadership of the redoubtable Mabel Stobart, in heading for Bulgaria to nurse the wounded in the First Balkan War they set out to join them. But they have to contend with the fixed idea, shared by military officers of all nationality, that the front line is no place for a woman. This is particularly true of her brother Ralph, who is anxious for her to marry his friend Tom and settles down to a ‘respectable’ life. (First published as DAUGHTERS OF WAR)
When the First World War breaks out Leo and Victoria volunteer for work with the FANY, the First Aid Nursing Yeomanry, as ambulance drivers at the front line in France. When Leo learns that Stobart has taken a unit to Serbia she goes to join her, in the hope of another encounter with the charismatic Colonel Count Aleksander Malkovic. Meanwhile Ralph and Tom have joined up and are embroiled in the battles of the Western Front. (First published as PASSIONS OF WAR).
Leo’s love affair with Sasha Malkovic almost results in tragedy for both of them. Leo gives birth in the middle of a battle and her child is left with surrogate parents. As the Serbs fight their way back into their homeland, she goes with them in the hope of finding her. In France Victoria contends with her own demons while Ralph and Tom suffer the miseries of trench warfare.
First published as HARVEST OF WAR.
WORLD WAR TWO
This is the first book in a trilogy that forms a sequel to the Frontline Nurses Books.The year 1939. Leo and Sasha’s daughter, Alix , is now 21 and is studying at the Sorbonne University in Paris. Leo and Sasha have parted because he wanted to marry Alix to the son of an old family friend and she has taken Alix away to prevent this happening. When war breaks out and the Germans march into Paris Alix is trapped behind enemy lines. She has to chose between going home to Serbia, which is still neutral at this point, and joining the Resistance. She chooses to stay. Meanwhile Sasha is involved in a plot to remove the Prince Regent, who is inclined towards appeasing the Nazis, and replacing him with Peter, the seventeen year-old heir to the throne. After an adventure with an ambulance party organised by the FANY to collect wounded in Finland’s Winter war against Russia, Leo is despatched by the head of SOE to act as his informant in Serbia.
A CALL TO SERVICE
This is Book 2 of my Behind Enemy Lines trilogy. Alix has escaped from occupied France and managed to get home to Yugoslavia only to find that her parents, Leo and Sasha, are not there. Before she can set out to find them Hitler mounts a devastating bombing raid on Belgrade. She discovers that they have left the country with the young King Peter. Left alone in the rubble of the city she relies on her childhood friend Dragomir. Then she meets Nikola, the man her father intended her to marry. He introduces her to a man known as Tito who seems to be the only person prepared to organise resistance to the German occupation. Alix finds herself drawn into the organisation that becomes known as the Partisans and soon she is fighting alongside them.
Unknown to her, Steve Popovic, the man she fell in love with in Paris, has been sent by the RAF to liaise with General Mihailovic, the leader of the Royalist Chetniks. He is also supposed to be leading a resistance movement but he is more concerned with the rise of the Communist Partisans. A struggle breaks out between the two factions and Alix and Steve find themselves fighting on opposite sides.