The Sheila Newberry Spring Collection
The Forget-Me-Not Girl, Hay Bales and Hollyhocks and Bicycles and Blackberries
Description of book
Curl up with a selection of heart-warming spring stories from the Queen of family saga, and author of The Winter Baby and The Nursemaid's Secret, Sheila Newberry. Three books in one for the first time!
The Forget-Me-Not Girl
Emma is growing up in the beautiful Norfolk countryside. Life seems idyllic, but little does she know things are about to change.
Soon she finds her family split. Her younger siblings are destined for the workhouse, whilst Emma takes a job as a cook in a wealthy London household. Then she meets a dashing young fireman. As Emma marries and her own family grows, so does her happiness. Until tragedy strikes.
Will Emma turn her life around once again? And can she finally find her happily ever after?
Hay Bales and Hollyhocks
The Cambridge Fens, 1938.
Little Rosanna is part of a close-knit Fenland family and the youngest of three cousins. In a time of childhood abandon and adventures on the water, life couldn't be more perfect.
But things are not always as they seem. When Rosanna's new baby brother is born, tragedy strikes the family. With with the outbreak of World War Two just around the corner, and a move to the Norfolk countryside, Rosanna's life is changed forever. And, as she and the family grow together, she realises that to find happiness, we sometimes have to break away from the things we know.
Bicycles and Blackberries
The East End, 1939.
When war comes to London, the bright and irrepressible Georgia Smith is torn from her tight-knit family and packed off as an evacuee.
She moves in with Phoebe Bliss, whose cheerful smile masks a dark past that ten year-old Georgia couldn't possibly understand.
Georgia soon finds herself involved in the small town's complicated love lives. But some secrets aren't meant for little girls, and she finds herself in danger.
Can a good heart keep a mischievous girl out of trouble?
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English