In 'Bad Penny', midwife Patty Peel delivers a baby girl in a filthy Liverpool slum dwelling, just as the mother dies. The drunk and violent father tells Patty to get rid of it. She means to deliver the child at an orphanage, but brings it up herself.[...]

"A heart-tugging read". ("Yours"). "Heartwarming". ("My Weekly"). "You won't be able to put this down until you have read every word". ("No. 1"). "One of the country's most popular storytellers". ("Scottish Daily Record").[...]

A few days before Christmas Tess Williams rushes into Albert Payne's tobacconist shop, with two boys in hot pursuit, saying she's a thief. Albert chases the boys away, and though Tess does not realise it, this incident changes her life. Tess lives with her grandmother, Edie, in a small flat on Heywo[...]

This book comes from the bestselling author Katie Flynn. Growing up in the Yorkshire Dales, Maddy Hebditch can't imagine the changes that war will bring when she joins the ATS. 1938. Maddy Hebditch has been living in poverty with her cantankerous grandmother since she was orphaned when she was just [...]