Orion The Kew Gardens Girls at War Lovell Posy

Home is where the heart is • Beryl was the first Farley clan bride, finding a home in the arms of loving, attentive, elder son Tony. Yet even now, wrapped in Tony's embrace, Beryl has never quite been able to forget the past she ran away from, nor the shocking family secret she tried to bury • With Tony away fighting the Jerries alongside his brothers, it's up to Beryl and her sisters-in-law to keep the family afloat. Hard, gruelling work doesn't faze her, but the sudden arrival of a devastating letter does • Will Beryl be able to hold her family together and face up to her past? Or will the war take away the one thing she holds most dear - the one person she never thought she deserved? • The perfect family saga, set on the Newcastle streets that inspired Catherine Cookson's bestselling classic The Fifteen Streets - This is the second in brand new series for fans of Nancy Revell, Elaine Everest and Daisy Styles

"Девушки из Кью Гарденс" - трогательный роман Пози Ловелл о храбрых женщинах во время Первой мировой войны, которые работали на исторической территории лондонских садов Кью • Смогут ли женщины Кью сохранить сады живыми в разгар войны? • Лондон, 1916 год. Англия в состоянии войны. Отчаянно желая помочь всем, чем могут, Айви и Луиза устраиваются садовницами в Королевские ботанические сады, взяв на себя работу мужчин, ушедших воевать. Под их присмотром сады начинают процветать и становятся надежным убежищем для тех, кто ищет утешения. Но не все хотят, чтобы женщины работали в Кью • Смогут ли женщины Кью сплотиться, чтобы поддержать себя и свою страну в самые мрачные времена? • Книга на английском языке • It's 1916 and England is at war. Desperate to help in whatever way they can, Ivy and Louisa enlist as gardeners at Kew, taking on the jobs of the men who have gone to fight

Can Irene find a new home by the docks? • Newly married to dashing RAF officer, Tom, Irene Farley leaves behind her safe countryside life to move in with his family by the docks in South Shields. Little prepares her for the devastation the Jerry bombers have wreaked on the Sixteen Streets or that they would be living under her mother-in-law's roof, alongside Tom's three brothers and two wives! • Irene's only escape is her job at the local Wright's Biscuit factory packing up a little taste of home for the brave boys fighting for King and country across the channel. As the threat of war creeps ever closer to the Sixteen Streets, the biscuit factory girls bond together, because no one can get through this war alone

Will friendship see them through the struggles of war? • As war approaches, Alice, Edith and Marg fear for the safety of their families, while trying to decide the best way they can do their bit for their country • Alice decides to volunteer with the Red Cross, helping those most in need, Marg is preparing to marry her true love at the most dangerous of times, and Edith hopes to finally realise her dream of becoming a teacher, and starting a family of her own • Things have never been easy for The Halfpenny Girls, but family, friendship and community spirit will always see them through the darkest of days • The third in a brand new series from reader favourite Maggie Mason, The Halfpenny Girls at War is the perfect heart-warming family saga about overcoming hardship and the value of friendship

Solve the botanical-themed crosswords in this delightful collection, published in association with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew • This beautiful puzzle book is the perfect treat for crossword fans who also have a love plants and botany. It is filled with over 200 crosswords as well as beautiful and inspiring quotations dotted throughout. Each puzzle also has an extra botanical clue (or keyword) which can be solved once the puzzle is complete • This delightful collection is published in association with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the world-famous gardens that have been collecting and conserving plants for 260 years. It will delight any plant lover and improve their knowledge of the natural world

Solve the botanical-themed wordsearches in this delightful collection, published in association with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew • This wonderful collection is published in association with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the world-famous gardens that have been collecting and conserving plants for 260 years. It includes over 100 wordsearch puzzles that are all themed around plants and nature. This means that puzzlers can pick up new knowledge as they go • Themes includes • Medicinal herbs • Species of cacti • Cottage garden plants • Plants and flowers in film titles • This beautifully illustrated puzzle book is the perfect treat for wordsearch fans who also have a love of all things to do with plants and botany

This delightful collection is published in association with The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the world-famous gardens that have been collecting and conserving plants for 260 years • This beautifully illustrated puzzle book is the perfect treat for sudoku fans. It includes over 200 sudoku puzzles graded from easy to expert, so puzzlers of all levels will find much to enjoy. Delightful nature quotes are scattered throughout and botanical designs ornament each page • A delightful treat for nature lovers and puzzlers alike

1941: it takes strength to work on the docks, but the war demands all hands on deck and the women are doing their best to fill the gap • Rosie is flourishing in her role as head-welder while still keeping her double life a secret. But a dashing detective is forcing Rosie to choose between love and her duty • Gloria is hiding her own little secret – one that if found out, could not only threaten her job, but her life • And the shipyards are proving tougher than Polly ever imagined, while she waits for her man to return home safely • Join the shipyard girls as they journey through the hardships of life, love and war

November, 1941 • Christmas is coming... and despite the blackout, shortages and a constant threat of air raids, the inhabitants of Kelthorpe on the Yorkshire coast are determined that war won't stop them celebrating • The run-up to Christmas sees sisters Connie and Lizzie, and their good friend Pamela, busier than ever. Between their jobs, carol-singing rehearsals with the church choir and night shifts doing their bit as Air Raid Wardens and ambulance drivers, it's all go • But when Connie and Lizzie's dear dad falls ill, their sweethearts Tom and Bill are called up by the Royal Navy for dangerous mine-sweeping duties, and Pamela's sweetheart Fred is targeted by vicious locals, the girls have to believe in miracles to keep soldiering on • Can their dearest wishes come true this Christmas?

Her wedding day should have been the happiest day of Mavis Kendricks' life. Marrying handsome Sam, the youngest of the Farley boys, means joining the Farley clan, and there's nothing Mavis has ever wanted more than a family of her own. But the appearance of an unexpected guest ruins everything... and brings back painful memories Mavis would rather forget • It's not long before the war-torn streets of South Shields are buzzing with rumours. One of the biscuit factory girls, funny little Mavis has always been a bit of a mystery. As far as anyone can remember, Mavis and her twin Arthur have been orphans. So who was the grand old lady at the wedding? How do the twins own their own house? And just what is Mavis hiding? On the Sixteen Streets, nothing stays a secret for long

Two families - and their secrets . . . A superb Liverpool saga from bestselling author Maureen Lee • In Liverpool, on a stormy September night in 1920, two women from very different backgrounds give birth to daughters in the same house. Enemies at first, they later become friends when separate troubles unite them. But friendship between their daughters, Cara and Sybil, is a different matter • Nineteen years later, at the beginning of the Second World War, Cara and Sybil find themselves thrown together when they enlist and are both stationed in Malta. It is a time of live-changing repercussions for them both while, back home in Liverpool, the bombs rain down on a defiant city

Stockport, 1944 • Alice seems to have it all, but the truth is her marriage isn't as solid as it seems. Busy running her husband's family shop while he's at war, everything changes when she meets handsome Louis, fresh in from Guernsey with young evacuee twins Gabriela and Philip • Factory heir Sophie is thrilled to be getting married - if only her mother her mother didn't disapprove! She's marrying for love, but her mother is convinced Tony is marrying for money. Is there more to her concern than Sophie realises? • Emily is tired of being pitied as the single friend. She's not averse to marriage but she's in no rush either! When she meets Italian prisoner-of-war Marco, she knows there can be no future. Her brother was killed in Dunkirk and her family would never accept an Italian