The year is 1847 during the time of the Irish Potato Famine. Three years old Molly is snatched from her cot whilst her family are attending a funeral. Maggie, her sister, who has left her homeland, thinks that Molly is being cared for, but the Filbey's, a local farming couple, have snatched Molly with the intention of taking her to South Australia. This book, part of a trilogy beginning with A Woman Undefeated, traces the generations throughout the years, until young Patrick Mayo, made an ...

Nora was a poor Irish girl in the 19th century who was destined to live as the dutiful wife of a domineering husband. Unable to speak much English and without her own money, she remained unhappily in Beggarman's Cottage, so called by later generations as it became a place of shelter for the homeless. In the Spring of 1967, Alison takes refuge in the cottage from her similarly abusive husband, who spends his money on alcohol and refuses to let Alison work. Nora watches on, bound to the dila...

Shattered Dreams is the continuing saga of the Dockerty family based on a manuscript left by Vivienne's mother. The story tells of a young couple's dreams for their future together, only to have them shattered by the 1930's Depression and conscription into the Second World War.

Growing up in the Dockerty household in the austere years after World War Two, with a father who reigned supreme as head of the household and a mother who was duty bound, didn't bode well for a middle child who was defiant and rebellious. This is based on the story of Vivienne Dockerty's childhood, although the character names have been changed and some of the places. Her childhood moulded her into the teenager she became, looking for love in the wrong places and facing challenges through ...

Twenty years have passed since Maggie settled with Jack in A Woman Undefeated. Now Jack wants to return to Ireland for a nostalgic visit. Maggie is reluctant to make the trip, not wishing to invoke painful memories and concerned about leaving her now thriving business. However, she puts her concerns aside and travels to Ireland, where she and Jack find themselves embroiled in dramatic events in the still troubled land. Caught up in the troubles, they find that travelling in the Irish count...

A fictional look at emigrating to Australia written by an author who did just that. Ping Pong Poms focuses on different couples as they leave their relatives and friends and head for the land of sunshine, cuddly koalas and kangaroos. Their expectations are high... after all they're going to a land where English is spoken, where they drive on the left and where there are large communities of Brits.For some life in Oz is perfection... the beaches, the barbies, the relaxed way of life...

My story peeks into the lives of the guests at the Hotel Valia, a small All Inclusive complex near a background of mountains in Costa Adeje, Tenerife.There are many characters in my story as it is a twice weekly changeover hotel, but the main character is 19 years old Lucy Bromwich, the resident hotel rep'. Seeing an advertisement on the internet for someone to work at Periquito Travel, Lucy decides that she would prefer to work abroad than to take a mundane job in a Manchester hot...

A Victorian saga. Eighteen years old Lily is spoilt by her father. She spurns the love of Charlie, a twenty one years old shipyard worker, as a courtship from a boy with his lowly background will never do. Lily has her heart set on marrying her cousin, Lawrence Patterson, a sea captain whom Lily has fallen in love. But Lawrence marries Bertha, Lily's older sister and Lily unable to have her heart's desire, marries Roland, an Army officer, instead. Charlie is bereft when his beloved marries...

Ada Moscrop, a thirty something Ward Sister from Cumbria, nursed a secret dream. It is 1922 and most of the eligible men who could have been a suitor, have either died in the recent war or succumbed to the influenza epidemic if they did make it home.Her dream of becoming a wife and mother had long disappeared. Then along came handsome and dashing Daniel McAuley, from Westmeath in Ireland. A patient on the Men's Surgical Ward at Blackburn Infirmary and just the man that Ada has been...

Arriving at the Irish settlement of Denna Point under the protection of the Haines family and their son, Jack, after leaving their famine stricken homeland, Maggie has no option but to throw her lot in with them. Bound by the constraints of the Catholic marriage she has been forced into, she is obliged to play the dutiful wife and daughter-in-law until Fate lends a helpful hand and she is introduced to Miss Rosemary, a local dressmaker.But life was difficult then for an Irish girl ...

The widowed matriarch of a proud Jewish family struggles to maintain stability as they weather many storms in this stirring saga.As Marianne strives to balance the demands of her career against the need to hold her family together, it is memories of her grandmother, Sarah, that fill her mind. Marianne is determined to maintain the loyalty and values that she fears the younger generation have lost, but this is no easy task.As tragedy befalls her actor nephew...

A new generation grapples with their legacy in the final book in the much-loved Almonds and Raisins series from the author of Out of the Ashes.A. P., the grandson of the Jewish matriarch, Marianne, has inherited his Catholic mother's family title and finds himself questioning the wealth and privilege that is suddenly his.Meanwhile, his cousins, Janis, Jeremy and Bessie, are left a fortune when their parents are killed by a car bomb and Jeremy's sea...