Rosie Harris

Star saga writer, Rosie Harris’s dramatic new Welsh tale: After losing both her parents, sixteen-year-old Merrion Roberts is left to bring up her baby alone. Meanwhile, her brother and her childhood sweetheart have both gone to sea and she has almost given up hope of ever seeing them alive again. From the Hardcover edition.

The Power of Dreams

A gripping new saga set in Liverpool: the story of young Winnie Molloy, crippled by polio, whose father is “Missing Presumed Dead” and whose feckless mother Grace meets with a fatal accident. At fourteen, she is sent out into the world to fend for herself. Will Winnie’s life improve? From the Hardcover edition.

Winnie of the Waterfront

Now in her seventies, widowed Mary Wilson never expected to find love again. But when a kindly stranger helps her home with her shopping, it marks the start of a slow-burning friendship. Wary of new romance, it's only when tragedy strikes Mary's family that she realizes how much Bill has come to mean to her. But has she left it all too late?

Never Too Old for Love

Widow Jenny Langton reluctantly decides to downsize to a small flat. It's difficult enough to start afresh, but her wayward granddaughter Karen's antics threaten to spoil her new life. Jenny must decide whether she should allow family loyalty to stand in the way of her future happiness – particularly as she's about to embark on a love affair . . .

Moving On: A Family Saga Set in 1970 S Liverpool

Liverpool, 1924. Racing to meet her fiancé in her father's new-fangled motor car, Penny Forshaw knocks over a little girl and - much to her fiancé's disapproval - feels it her duty to take in 6-year-old Kelly while she recovers. Her decision to look after a child from the slums will change Penny's life in ways she could never have imagined.

Love Or Duty

Recently widowed after 50 years of marriage, Betty Wilson wants to remain fiercely independent and free of romance. But when the unwitting septuagenarian is faced with conmen and dangerous technology everywhere she turns, will she accept her friend Peter Brown's help and realise there can be other loves before it is too late?

A Mind of Her Own

Maureen Flynn goes on a quest for vengeance when long-suppressed memories resurface, at the same time Detective Inspector Ruth Morgan and her team are trying to solve a string of brutal murders in their quiet little town.

Hell Hath No Fury

This compelling new saga set in Liverpool from the author of The Quality of Love promises to deliver another engaging, heart-warming tale for the many fans of this much-loved writer. From the Hardcover edition.

Whispers of Love

An engrossing new saga set in Cardiff from the author of "Love Changes Everything. "The only child of over-protective parents, Sarah Lewis yearns to leave home. Studying hard to please them, she earns a place at Cardiff University. Here she is swept off her feet by handsome Gwyn Roberts, but when she becomes pregnant her parents are devastated and turn her from their door. All Gwyn and Sarah can afford are two squalid rooms in the infamous slums of Cardiff and Sarah soon realizes she s made a terrible mistake. Gwyn becomes increasingly distant and when the baby dies in infancy, he leaves Sarah with little choice but to fall on her parents mercy. But just when Sarah is starting to pull her life back together again, she is drawn to the charms of Stefan Vaughan and finds herself in trouble once more."

The Quality of Love

In this gripping new saga, set in Wales, twins Donna and Tanwen couldn’t be more opposite in looks and personality and, although their lives are entwined, the outcomes are very different.

Pins and Needles

It’s a whole new kind of life for Patsy Callaghan when her father realizes that her mother, Maeve, is neglecting her and stops going to sea. When John Callaghan is killed in an accident, the boy who works for him, Billy Grant, helps Patsy to keep the business going. Billy is deeply in love with her but Patsy has fallen for the charismatic charms of fairground showman Bruno Alvarez, and believes that he is going to marry her. When Patsy’s world collapses. Billy is there to comfort her and she realizes how much she loves him and that their future is together.

Patsy of Paradise Place

Newly widowed after a forty-year marriage, Margaret Wright's decision to make a fresh start by redecorating her home has unexpected consequences when talented interior designer Jason Parker enters her life. But if Margaret rushes headlong into a new relationship, is she in danger of making the same mistakes all over again?

A Contemporary Family Saga

The Mixture As Before

Lucy Collins and her brother Sam have lived side by side with the Tanner family all their lives. Lucy and Robert Tanner long for the day when they can marry and the future is full of promise for all three. Until tragedy strikes when Lucy’s parents are killed in a car crash, and Sam is left gravely injured and in need of careful nursing. Sam’s girlfriend Patsy refuses to help, and Lucy has little choice but to postpone her wedding. Not only is she left heartbroken at the loss of her parents, Lucy is then devastated to discover that Robert has betrayed her in the worst possible way. With little money and unable to earn a regular wage, Lucy and Sam are forced to move into the slums of Liverpool. As Sam’s health deteriorates and their life spirals into poverty and despair, Lucy wonders if she’ll ever find happiness again . . . From the Paperback edition.

The Price of Love

The captivating new saga set in Cardiff from the author of Whispers of Love.

Ambitious Love

Obeying her mother’s dying wish that she move to the other side of the Mersey to live with her Aunt Flo is devastating for Lucy Patterson. Life with the Flanagans in the slums of Liverpool, working in a factory, and near rape by her cousin Frank make Lucy desperately unhappy. Then the worst happens and Lucy finds herself homeless and destitute. But can she break her promise to her mother?

Turn of the Tide

Born into a humble mining community, Rhianon and Sabrina Webster live with their stern father, both planning very different futures. Edwin dotes on his youngest daughter, beautiful, flighty Sabrina, but it is homely, steady Rhianon who keeps their little family together. Until one fateful day when Pryce Pritchard, the man Rhianon loves, gets into a fight and all their worlds are turned upside down when Pryce is arrested and Sabrina disappears . . . Months later, after visiting Pryce in jail, Rhianon chances upon Sabrina - pregnant and now living in squalid lodgings in the poorest part of Cardiff. When the baby is born Sabrina wants little to do with him and it is kind hearted Rhianon who looks after the little boy. Then Sabrina reveals the shocking truth that Pryce is Davyn's child. And, after three long years, Pryce is due out of prison. But which sister will he return to?

At Sixes and Sevens

Fourteen-year-old Trixie Jackson hoped she had a future to look forward to. But when she is sacked from the local factory she is forced to work as a housekeeper for one of her father's friends - a man she instinctively dislikes. Kept under lock and key, her life soon becomes a living hell. But in her haste to escape she injures herself and ends up in hospital. However, her troubles are only just beginning. When her mother is involved in a tragic accident and dies, Trixie and her younger sister Cilla are left at the mercy of their bullying father. All too quickly he brings his mistress Daisy into the house. And she will stop at nothing to make the girls' lives utter misery.

Love Changes Everything

When 14-year old Sara Jenkins rescues her baby sister, Myfanwy, from the fire which kills their mother, little does she realise the burden of responsibility she is taking on. She has to face the hardest times of her life and fight for herself, Myfanwy, and her unborn child, before happiness is finally within her reach.

Troubled Waters

SAGAS. They shared a secret no one must ever know...When seventeen-year-old Ruth Davies' father is invalided out of the Great War, the whole family has little choice but to move to the infamous Tiger Bay area of Cardiff. Not only faced with a life of adversity, Ruth and her mother Caitlin also share a secret, one that no one else must ever know. Ruth and Caitlin's wages are barely enough to put food on the table let alone pay the rent. And an increasingly neglected young Glynis runs wild. When Caitlin contracts tuberculosis and dies they have no option but to move into an even more squalid neighbourhood. But, Ruth is still determined to keep their secret, at all costs. That is, until their father dies unexpectedly and an ever more desperate Ruth and Glynis find themselves living hand-to-mouth.

A Love Like Ours

Karen and Tudor Morgan have moved to Cardiff in search of a new life. Karen gets a job, leaving her husband to look after their young daughter Delia, until, one day, when Tudor is arrested for begging. When Tudor comes out of prison, he progresses to something far more sinister. Karen can do something to ensure that she and her daughter survive.

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