Item category 1: Family Saga

Partially blinded Matthew Faraday, who has been in love with Clemency Kivell for three years, decides to hold a May Day festival in the industrial village of Meryen. However, the event is spoiled when Matthew and Clemency argue. When Clemency realises that she has fallen in love with Matthew, has...

Lucy Gabbitas has just left school and is excited about joining her sisters at the local umbrella factory. But then her beloved father dies of lung disease leaving Lucy and her brothers and sisters broken-hearted. With barely enough to make ends meet, the family receive no sympathy from their tyr...

Lucy Gabbitas has just left school and is excited about joining her sisters at the local umbrella factory. But then her beloved father dies of lung disease leaving Lucy and her brothers and sisters broken-hearted. With barely enough to make ends meet, the family receive no sympathy from their tyr...

This love story is set in Edwardian Suffolk and comes from the author of 'A Way Through the Woods'. Helena unearths her family's past, entering the mysterious world of her grandmother, a woman eager to taste new freedoms.

Harriet is newly arrived in Athens. Having fled Nazi-occupied Rumania, she anxiously awaits news of her husband Guy, trapped in the spoilt city of Bucharest. When the young couple are reunited, they have little idea of the problems still to come.

When Josie O'Casey returns to London after 12 years in America, she is overjoyed to discover that her childhood sweetheart Patrick Nolan, who she believed to be dead, is alive and well. But Josie's happiness is short-lived - Patrick now belongs to another.

Heather and Kirsty Grace are sisters growing up near Glasgow, surrounded by a big Irish family and a host of friends and neighbours. But although they are lucky to have a caring family around them, it's a dangerous world are there are plenty of pitfalls and temptations ahead of two young women in...

It's 1920, and ex-land girl Clara Tripp is back home in West London with her family. Despite her engagement to local boy Arnold, Clara is feeling trapped in her dead end job and longs to return to the countryside. An unexpected meeting with old flame Charlie Fenner leads to a temporary job at his...

Claudia Muldoon and her younger sister, Jenny, live with their parents and their gran in her house in Blodwen Street. Both parents have good jobs and the family assume they are settled for life, but then Grandpa Muldoon has a seizure and begs his son to return to Ireland and the family croft.

Hull, 1874. The beautiful Jewel Newmarch, adopted as a baby, turns heads wherever she goes. Even at her cousin Elizabeth's wedding, she is the belle of the ball. But as she looks on at the happy, newly-married couple she feels a restlessness and intense longing to know her own roots.