Harpercollins The Victory Girls Toye Joanna

"Свадебные колокола для девушек Победы" • Лето 1945 года. После победы в Европе лучшие подруги Лили, Глэдис и Берил смотрят в будущее. Но даже несмотря на эту радостную новость, их жизнь далеко не проста • Несмотря на радостную летнюю свадьбу Лили, она сомневается в том, чего теперь хочет ее сердце. Пока она приспосабливается к роли молодой жены, может ли это означать конец ее работы в Марлоузе? • Возвращение мужа Глэдис Билла ставит под вопрос их семейную жизнь, поскольку он пытается найти работу после службы в военно-морском флоте, а для Берил наступают большие перемены в ее свадебном магазине • Когда девушки начинают жить дальше, им как никогда нужно держаться вместе • Язык издания: английский • Summer 1945. After victory in Europe, best friends Lily, Gladys and Beryl are looking to the future

The new book in the heart-warming WW2 family saga series! ‘Just the balm our souls need right now’ Women’s Weekly • Summer 1942. Despite grim reports on the wireless and rationing hitting hard, Lily Collins and her fellow shop girls from Marlow’s department store are determined to put out the bunting for a family party • But Beryl’s husband Les returns from North Africa a changed man, and Gladys worries for her own fiance’s safety. The store is losing staff to the war effort and Lily’s young man, Jim, is torn over where his duty lies • Then comes the knock on the door that everyone dreads. Lily’s family, always the heart of her world, is rocked to the core. The small Midlands town – and Lily’s beloved Marlow’s – must face their greatest challenge yet

Uplifting and heartwarming: drama, courage and romance at Marlow's department store this Christmas • For Lily Collins and her fellow shop girls at Marlow's Department store, another Christmas with ration books, shortages of goods and staff - not to mention a store coping with war damage - will be a real challenge • But the girls rally round and put their worries aside to make this, the hardest wartime Christmas yet, one that their families, and their town, will never forget

War brings changes three friends could never foresee… • It's 1942 and as shortages of staff - and goods - begin to bite, young Lily Collins is nervously stepping up to sales junior at Marlow's department store • Bombs are still falling and Lily and fellow shop girls Gladys and Beryl need a stiff upper lip to wave boyfriends, husbands and brothers goodbye, especially with a baby on the way and grim news on the wireless. Jim, who works with Lily at the store, seems restless, and nothing can prepare Lily for the secrets that come tumbling out when her favourite brother comes home on leave… • Somehow, she must keep smiling through. Community, family and friends rally round as her home town - and the whole country - is tested once again

The thrilling story of the French princess who became an English queen, from the best-selling author of The Agincourt Bride. 'A thrilling story' Take a Break • Even the greatest of queens have rules - to break them would cost her dearly… • King Henry V's new French Queen, Catherine, dazzles the crowds in England but life at court is full of intrigue and her loyal companion, Mette, suspects that the beautiful Eleanor Cobham, protegee of the Duke of Gloucester, is spying for him • Catherine believes herself invincible as she gives birth to an heir, then tragically King Henry is struck down by fever. Unable to outwit those who seek to remove the new king from her care, Catherine retires from court, comforted by the King's Harper, Owen Tudor • At the secluded manor of Hadham a smouldering ember bursts into flame and Catherine and Owen Tudor become lovers

Когда Эдуард Йоркский возвращает себе английскую корону, Войны Алой и Белой Розы рассеивают ланкастерскую знать, и юный Генрих Тюдор, имеющий серьезные притязания на трон, вынужден отправиться в изгнание • Недавно овдовевшая и уязвимая, его мать, леди Маргарет Бофорт, заключает неудобный союз с королевой Эдуарда, Елизаветой Вудвилл. Принеся клятву верности Йорку, Маргарет соглашается выйти замуж за самого проницательного придворного короля, лорда Стэнли. Но сможет ли она переступить зыбкую грань между долгом перед мужем, верностью сыну и своим обязательством перед Богом и королем? • Когда во время правления Эдуарда происходит трагедия, безжалостные действия Ричарда Йоркского разжигают амбиции матери и сына. Когда их судьбы сойдутся, каждый из них столкнется с предательством, и в своей изнурительной борьбе за корону Тюдоров оба должны быть готовы заплатить самую высокую цену… • "The Tudor Crown" роман Джоанны Хиксон

A charming and nostalgic read, perfect for fans of Coronation Street and readers who love stories set in wartime • They are digging for victory on the nation's favourite street • Vera Sharples longs for independence from her interfering mother, Coronation Street's tyrant in a hairnet, Ena Sharples • Vera's friend, Lily Longhurst, has found herself on the wrong side of a doomed romance and decides it's high time she and Vera took their lives into their own hands • The girls sign up for the Land Army and are sent to Kent, where life is very different from the familiar cobbles they know so well. Expected to work from daybreak until sunset, the routine and the constant air raids come as a shock • Even as the girls comes to grips with the country at war, back home Ena can't stop meddling

One weekend, one bride-to-be, what could possibly go wrong… • All Shelley wanted on her hen weekend was to enjoy three days of sun, sea and sangria. But instead of being surrounded by the A-team of her closest friends, she somehow ends up with a Golden Girls-meets-the-Spice Girls B-list that includes her mother, a rebellious teenager, and a best mate ‘on the verge’ • The squabbling starts at the airport, and on arrival in Spain, Shelley barely has time to unpack her suitcase before getting an unwanted text ? one that throws her wedding into doubt • Shelley has got a BIG decision to make, but her unruly medley of nearest and dearest seem determined to confuse matters with their own problems • Have they got what it takes to get her through the most important weekend of her life?

The New York Times bestselling author turns the clock back to a time when two young girls convinced the world that fairies really did exist… • Cottingley, Yorkshire, 1917: When two young cousins, Frances Griffiths and Elsie Wright, announce they have photographed fairies at the bottom of the garden, their parents are astonished. But when the great novelist, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, endorses the photographs’ authenticity, the girls become a sensation; their discovery offering something to believe in amid a world ravaged by war • One hundred years later: When Olivia Kavanagh finds an old manuscript and a photograph in her late grandfather’s bookshop it sparks a fascination with the story of the two young girls who mystified the world. Delving deeper into the past, and the truth behind an innocent game that became a national obsession, Olivia begins to question her own beliefs

The three sisters of Victory Walk in East London will face heartache and tears on the home front • Rose, Clover and Daisy are the pretty blond sisters of the Harrison family, living with their parents and two brothers, and working in East London and the outbreak of WWII. Rose the eldest is a nurse working in Homerton Hospital, she despairs of her younger siblings and their occasional less sensible attitudes to life • Clover is the handful of the family and whenever there’s trouble she isn’t far away. At the first chance she gets, she volunteers for the Auxiliary Service, but things go far from smoothly. Daisy is the baby of the family, but she doesn’t want to be treated like a child anymore and is determined to grow up, whether her family like it or not

The compelling new bestseller from the author of The Mersey Daughter and Winter on the Mersey • Alice Lake has arrived in London from Liverpool to start her training as a District Nurse, but her journey has been far from easy. Her parents think that she should settle down and get married, but she has already had her heart broken once and isn’t about to make the same mistake again • Alice and her best friend Edith are based in the East End but before they’ve even got their smart new uniforms on, war breaks out and Hitler’s bombs are raining down on London • Alice must learn to keep calm and carry on as she tends to London’s sick and injured, all the time facing her own heartache and misfortune while keeping up the Spirit of the Blitz…

The new heartwarming and nostalgic read in the bestselling wartime District Nurses series • For the district nurses of Victory Walk, there's been little time to bask in the triumph of D-day as London is facing a new threat – the buzz bombs. Everyone is terrified, never knowing where the next one will strike. Into this tense atmosphere, new nurse, Iris, must make her mark. She’s had more experience of nursing than many, but since arriving in East London from the countryside, she has struggled to fit in with the other staff • Meanwhile Alice is facing an agonising wait to hear if her boyfriend Joe has survived D-day – she can barely sleep for wondering if he ever received her letter in which she promised to wait for him? Others too are in limbo, not knowing if their loved ones have made it through