Little Billy is the light of Polly's life - it's for her son's sake that she puts up with an unkind mother-in-law and an isolated farm. Then Billy is knocked down by a car, his father killed attempting to save his life...
Family Chronicles
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
- Author:ANDREWS, VirginiaSummary:
Audrina, who has lost her memory, wants to be as perfect and as much loved as her dead sister. However, mystery surrounds her sister's death.
- Author:Davies, RobertsonSummary:
Connor Gilmartin's inauspicious, but much beloved, mortal life comes to an untimely end when he discovers his wife in bed with one of his more ludicrous associates, Randall Allard Going. Death becomes a bit complicated when...
- Author:MADOC, GwenSummary:
In this gentle, yet emotionally powerful, tale, the author creates a memorable heroine and paints a vivid picture of small-town Welsh life.
- Author:Bagley, DesmondSummary:
Geologist, Bob Boyd, who works in British Columbia timber country, has no memory of his past following a terrible accident, which only he survived. Hired by the powerful Matterson Corporation to survey land before they build a great new...
- Author:CARR, PhilippaSummary:
Lottie has loved her cousin Dickon since childhood. When he marries a rich heiress she is forced to begin a new life in France with her father's family. Tragedy strikes and Lottie is cast adrift in Paris as the stormclouds of the...
- Author:WILDING, LynneSummary:
A compelling family saga that sweeps from India and southern Africa to the cane fields of north Queensland.
- Author:COX, JosephineSummary:
Jinnie is the child from a one-night liaison between Louise Hunter's husband, Ben, and Louise's sister, Susan. When Ben takes his own life, and Susan deserts the newborn child, Louise adopts little Jinnie.
- Author:STEEL, DanielleSummary:
A journey through five eventful decades, this novel is the story of a family whose lives are woven into the fabric of history. On the eve of Sarah Whitfield's seventy-fifth birthday she is reminded of the years that have brought...
- Author:THOMAS, RosieSummary:
A story of love, loss and the distance between three generations of one family, this novel centres on Iris and Ruby, a grandmother and her granddaughter - as they try and make sense of their respective lives.
- Author:JACOBS, AnnaSummary:
When a new feature on Pete Newbury's popular TV programme shows his adult image digitally transformed to that of a young child, Beth is shocked to realise he's her 'baby' brother, who vanished without trace. Her...
- Author:COOKSON, CatherineSummary:
Hannah Massey is the matriarch of her family but her daughter, the apple of her eye, creates an explosive situation.
- Author:COURTENAY, BryceSummary:
The Maloneys live in a small town in Australia. They are a fifth-generation struggling Australian family of Irish Catholic descent. A strong mother, father broken by war, three boys and two girls. Each of their lives is changed by the...
- Author:ROBERTS, NoraSummary:
At eighteen, Laura Templeton's future looks utterly perfect - heiress to the vast hotel empire, and her ideal of a happy loving marriage. Twelve years later her husband has betrayed and robbed her of personal wealth and shattered...
- Author:STEEL, DanielleSummary:
For the Wittgenstein family, the summer of 1915 was a time of both prosperity and unease, as the guns of war sound in the distance. But for eldest daughter Beata, it was also a summer of awakening when she meets and falls in love with...
- Author:MCKINLEY, TamaraSummary:
Catriona Summers' debut in show business came early. Her father, the leader of a travelling music hall troupe that toured small regional towns introduced her to her first audience when only a baby. From humble beginnings Catriona...
- Author:SUMMERS, RowenaSummary:
Following the Caldwell saga, set in 1940's Bristol.
- Author:DAILEY, JanetSummary:
When her fiance is killed, Cat Calder retreats to the homestead to mourn. One reckless night leads to a chance encounter with a grey-eyed stranger.
- Author:DAILEY, JanetSummary:
A Calder by birth, Ty Calder has been brought up far away from the Montana ranch that is his inheritance. Returning, he finds it difficult to settle in.
- Author:COOKSON, CatherineSummary:
In the third of a series of novels, troubles develop in the Bailey home when the three stepchildren, Mark, Katie, and Willie, and the adopted daughter, Mamie, face the addition of Bill and Fiona's first baby.