Audrey Reimann Livres

Spanning two generations of war and depression, this is the story of three Yorkshire families bound together by ties of love, commerce and blood.

Never did have one.' Growing up in Macclesfield, a town whose cotton and silk industries were hit hard by the war, poor Lily Stanway never got to know her father. Neither can she understand the tensions and ties between her mother and the members of two Macclesfield families, the Hammonds and the Chancellors.

Can Alice protect her siblings? But when her Mama dies suddenly and her Papa leaves to fight in the war, young Alice is left to care for her family alone. But when her Papa remarries, the jealously of their new stepmother leaves Alice fearing for the safety of her siblings.

Set against a background of the Lancashire/Cheshire cotton industry, The Runaway is a magnificent saga of a young man's rise to power, his passion and poverty, feuds and triumphs and the two very different women who shape his life.

When the orphaned Flora MacDonald escapes from a harsh reform school she falls - literally - into the arms of Andrew Stewart, a handsome sailor on shore leave. Out of desperation, she travels to Andrew's country estate, but she doesn't know how kindly his well-to-do family will welcome her in.

Can she give her baby a better life? Carrie is beginning to think her care- free days are gone forever when Patrick Kennedy, a wild, handsome and passionate Irishman, turns her world upside down. Left with a newborn baby to care for, Carrie has some difficult choices to make.