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  • LADY OF PASSION
    FREDA LIGHTFOOT
    Experience a "surprisingly moving" tale of love, ambition, and heartbreak in this historical romance based on the life of Mary Robinson (Historical Novel Society).   Bright, talented, and well-educated, young Mary Robinson aspires to be an actress, but her mother has other plans. Married off to a man that gambles away their money and is constantly unfaithful, Mary turns to the ...

    $109.00

  • DANCING ON DEANSGATE
    FREDA LIGHTFOOT
      When World War II brings danger to Manchester, a young woman sent to stay with her criminal uncle must find courage in this saga. Jess Delaney has always longed for independence. But when the Blitz reaches Manchester, she is locked in the cellar by her feckless mother, Lizzie. As bombs rain down from a sky turned blood red with flame, Jess waits for Lizzie to return. But fort...

    $229.00

  • CANDY KISSES
    FREDA LIGHTFOOT
      In this thrilling saga set in 1950s Manchester, new love and old rivalries cross paths in a sumptuous sweet shop. It is a truth universally acknowledged that everyone dotes on Aunty Dot, as much as they do on her homemade sweets. The plump, smiling woman has provided a loving home for many a troubled child over the years, and Lizzie Pringle is no exception. Lizzie would do an...

    $229.00

  • FOOLS FALL IN LOVE
    FREDA LIGHTFOOT
      The new girl working at an elegant hat stall stirs up trouble in this enthralling saga of secrecy and sisterhood set in 1950s Manchester. When Patsy talks her way into a job on the Champion Street Market millinery stall, the Higginson sisters get more than they bargained for. Riddled with insecurities, Patsy’s impudence wins her new enemies as well as friends and her determin...

    $229.00

  • THE CASTLEFIELD COLLECTOR
    FREDA LIGHTFOOT
      In this Depression-era tale of love and endurance, a young woman must decide how much she’ll sacrifice to protect her family. Dolly Tomkins has always known what it is to live hand to mouth. In the mean streets of a Salford struggling under the mantle of the Great Depression, the only one making a decent living is the talleyman. Though Nifty Jack has a money bag where his hea...

    $149.00

  • PUTTING ON THE STYLE
    FREDA LIGHTFOOT
      A waitress worries she’s fallen for her brother’s killer in this moving saga of second chances and forbidden love set in 1950s Manchester. Folk are just emerging from the shadow of WWII, and money is still tight. So the vibrant market of Champion Street is a source of many a tempting bargain—as well as all the local gossip. Dena loves her Saturday job at Belle Garside’s marke...

    $109.00

  • LONELY TEARDROPS
    FREDA LIGHTFOOT
      In this emotional saga set around 1950s Manchester hair salon, a mother’s revelation throws a young woman’s world into darkness. It’s a rainy day on Champion Street as Harriet attends the funeral of her beloved father. But then her grandmother drops a bombshell on her out of nowhere, and she can hardly take in the words for shock and grief. Joyce, the woman she has always cal...

    $109.00

  • THAT'LL BE THE DAY
    FREDA LIGHTFOOT
      In this gripping saga set around a flower stall in 1950s Manchester, a new romance gives a young gossip something to talk about. Working on their busy flower stall in Champion Street Market, Lynda and her mother, Betty, have lots of opportunities to observe their customers and speculate about their lives. Sam regularly buys bouquets for his wife, Judy, so why does she always ...

    $229.00

  • THE CHILD FROM NOWHERE
    FREDA LIGHTFOOT
      As the Great War looms, a single mother works to open her own business while weathering hardships in this saga by The Girl from Poor House Lane.  After giving birth to her daughter, Kate O’Connor finds herself back in Poor House Lane with some momentous decisions to make. Faced with the opportunity to move out of the slums, she invests her unexpected fortune in a new shoe fac...

    $109.00

  • THE WOMAN FROM HEARTBREAK HOUSE
    FREDA LIGHTFOOT
      Following World War I, an English wife and mother faces a battle of her own, struggling to keep her family together in this moving saga. The Great War is over, and Kate is ready to welcome back Eliot with open arms. But her husband is a changed man. Kate has become used to her independence, and Eliot’s return creates tensions both at work and at home, particularly with Kate’s...

    $109.00

  • RUBY MCBRIDE
    FREDA LIGHTFOOT
      Sent to an orphanage by a terminally ill mother and later forced into a marriage at sixteen, a young woman vows to reunite her family in this moving saga. Where there’s a rulebook, there’s a rebel . . . Ruby McBride has always been on the wrong side of authority. The grand opening of the Manchester Ship Canal is set to be a day of unfettered festivity for Ruby and her younger...

    $229.00

  • THE GIRL FROM POOR HOUSE LANE
    FREDA LIGHTFOOT
      In this gripping saga, a single mother in 1905 northern England wants to give her son a better life but she’s unprepared for the consequences.  The slums of Poor House Lane are no place to bring up a child, and Kate O’Connor struggles to make ends meet when her beloved husband is killed, leaving her a single mother with a baby to support on the meagre hand-outs she gleans fro...

    $109.00

  • THE FAVOURITE CHILD
    FREDA LIGHTFOOT
      Working at a women’s clinic in 1920s England alienates a young woman from her family and endangers so much more in this emotional saga. Isabella Ashton has always been her father’s favourite, but when she gets involved with the new Birth Control Movement, he is scandalised. A decade has elapsed since the end of the Great War and running a family planning clinic in Salford is ...

    $229.00

  • THE DUCHESS OF DRURY LANE
    FREDA LIGHTFOOT
    Passion, jealousy, and scandal abound in this regency romance based on the real-life rags-to-riches story of British actress Dora Jordan.   Having grown up poor and fatherless in Ireland, Dorothy Jordan is determined to overcome her humble beginnings and become the most famous comic actress of her day. While performing on London's Drury Lane, Dora catches the eye of the Duke of...

    $109.00