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79 Uxbridge Road
Tom, who was previously an Accountant in the shipping office of Cunard, has arrived home from the second world war to his wife Martha and their two children, Brian who is five and Janey eleven. Because of the terrible conditions in the concentration camp in which he was imprisoned by the Germans, Tom contracts TB and is subsequently admitted to a sanitarium leaving Martha to care for the family. Tom's mother who lives in style in Belgravia does not endear herself to anyone and blames her son's ill health on his enlistment in the war. However, Martha's mother is the complete opposite to Grandma Johnson, and Brian and Janey adore visiting her in the school holidays. In Martha's struggle to care for her family, she is supported by her gossipy but kind neighbour, Ethel, who lives next door and likes to play Bingo at the local hall. Tom dies of TB, but he did not die alone as Edward, the kind doctor at the sanitarium had been with him in his final moments. Will Martha be able to support herself and her two children with no husband? Will she find love again when everything looks so hopeless?
The Dark Before the Dawn
Just before the start of World War II, Peggy Davis, a London midwife, has a chance encounter with a stranger that changes her life forever.When Peggy meets Charles, a wealthy lord as she boards a bus in front of Harrods department store, fate casts them together. When Charles' wife, Diana, and first child die in childbirth, Peggy, and Charles are thrust into a relationship of happiness, sorrow and unexpected tragedy.They ultimately marry, have a son and adopt an east end refugee boy from London. What transpires is a web of family dramas a la Downton Abbey with lesbian relationships, Nazi sympathizers and family secrets revealed as Peggy attempts to navigate through her new life from midwife to lady of the manor.
The Lodgers
When Mabel, a former Vaudeville performer, lands a job managing a boarding house on the ocean, she appears to attract a disparate cast of lodgers, all with unfortunate and dark lives.The lodgers include:?Two queens, old thespian friends of Mabel's who live in the basement with a peppercorn rent.?Therese, a pregnant Irish girl banished to England by her mother who assumes she is in an unmarried mothers' home in the care of the nuns.?Irene, a recovering alcoholic who has a sister Judy who, due to a trauma experienced during the war is unable to speak.?Arthur, an aged army major, had a son Ned who was shot for desertion.?Harry, alias Percy, a con man and felon who befriends the landlady, Mabel.When Therese moves to the Outback to get married, Judy follows and one day Judy spots a Kookaburra in a nearby tree. When the bird laughs, an unexpected, wonderous miracle happens.
Margaret's Story
Margaret, a resident in a nursing home, has been divorced from her husband who suffered from bipolar disorder. Her son Peter and her daughter Phoebe have placed her in this care facility after selling the family home. Both couples, Phoebe and her husband Neil and Peter and his wife Adriana, are in unhappy toxic relationships. Adriana however manages to divorce Peter and moves to Australia. But Peter and Phoebe are not the only two children that Margaret has. Before her marriage, Margaret had given birth to a son who was adopted by a Canadian couple. She always thought of this child and yearned to see him again. The plot takes a turn when by sheer coincidence, Adriana meets Margaret s son in ...
Return to Portovenere
Upon the request of her mother’s dying wish Georgia has made a pilgrimage to Portovenere, an iconic place in Cinque Terre where poets and artists visited and where her mother spent time in the 1920s. With her ashes and a box of memorabilia, Georgia hopes to solve her mother’s enigmatic behaviour towards her and especially towards her father. From the halcyon days of the twenties to contemporary time, in English grand estates and Fleet Street, the salons of Paris, in Rome, Florence and Portovenere, relationships will be tested and questioned. A tragic outcome will change lives forever and when secrets are revealed there will be an unexpected and surprising ending.
Life's Last Page
Into the confines of Waverley Nursing Home steps Lisa, a voluntary worker whose life has been scarred by emotional and physical abuse. Firstly, by her mother then by her Attorney husband, Gary. Tormented by her own painful past, she becomes a guardian angel for the suffering residents, particularly Harry whose own life had been one of hardship and suffering. under the hands of the Japanese in the second world war. Olga, a survivor of the Holocaust, was another resident Lisa befriends and to them she offers solace in the most controversial way possible. Will Lisa's acts of mercy truly be the salvation she believes them to be, or will they unleash a chain of devastating consequences? Into the picture comes Douglas, a flawed character who harbours a deep secret which leads him down a treacherous path. Haunted by his own demons he too seeks an elusive redemption that seems forever out of reach. As these two complex souls collide, their actions ignite a series of events that will test the boundaries of morality. In a world where right and wrong blur into shades of grey, will they find absolution or be forever consumed by their own darkness
Lodgers
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MARGARET'S STORY
Margaret, a resident in a nursing home, has been divorcedfrom her husband who suffered from bipolar disorder. Her son Peter and her daughter Phoebe have placed her in this care facility after selling the family home. Both couples, Phoebe and her husband Neil and Peter and his wife Adriana, are in unhappy toxic relationships. Adriana however manages to divorce Peter and moves to Australia. But Peter and Phoebe are not the only two children that Margaret has. Before her marriage, Margaret had given birth to a son who was adopted by a Canadian couple. She always thought of this child and yearned to see him again. The plot takes a turn when by sheer coincidence, Adriana meets Margaret s son in S...
Before the Darkness
In pre-World War Two London, Penny works as a maternity nurse at the Royal Women's Hospital. Happy in her work and with two really good friends and several doctor suitors, little does she realise how her life will be changed by a chance lunch-time encounter. Who is the ruggedly handsome man who helps her? And how will their lives entwine as the war clouds gather?
