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The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow
Maureen Reynolds' moving family saga which started with "The Sunday Girls" and continued in "Towards a Dark Horizon" now concludes in "The Sun Will Shine Tomorrow". As war continues to rage across Europe, the family are worried about Rosie who is pregnant and suffering from terrible morning sickness. Meantime Johnny goes to Orkney with the Home Guard where he suffers a fractured skull in a fall. When he eventually gets home Rosie is feeling better but then suddenly goes into labour. Meantime, Ann Neill is thrilled to be meeting up with Greg again when he gets a 48-hour pass. But instead of meeting him as planned, Johnny asks her to go to the hospital with Rosie and tells her he will explain ...
Meadow Lane
The long-awaited new novel from the author of the bestselling Voices in the Street and The Sunday Girls trilogy. A compelling family saga about ordinary people and their extraordinary lives in post-war Britain. It's January 1955 and for the residents of Meadow Lane, a small community of seven terraced houses, each household has its own story... But when Sadie returns to Meadow Lane from Canada with her son and no husband, she throws the small community into turmoil. She tries to rekindle an old flame, despite him now being married with two children. Then Sadie's son, unhappy with his mother, runs away, desperate to get back to Canada to be with his father. Depressed by how life is turning out, Sadie starts drinking, with tragic consequences for those in Meadow Lane which will change all of their lives forever. Meadow Lane is an epic family saga set over 20 years, beginning in the 1950s, telling the story of ordinary people and their extraordinary lives, perfect for fans of Elaine Everest, Lesley Pearce and Nadine Dorries.
Towards a Dark Horizon
It is the 1930s and having survived the Great Depression the Neill family must now face up to the hardships of war. The legacy Ann Neill has inherited from her kindly employer has been a godsend but just as their lives seem set to improve, the threat of war with Germany looms and they seem headed for a similarly dark horizon. Full of dark family secrets, Towards A Dark Horizon tells the next part of the story of Ann and Lilly Neill, their father Johnny as well as the Ryan clan and the budding relationship between Danny and Maddie. But in the turbulent years before and after the start of the Second World War, no one can escape the conflict or what fate has in store. In Towards A Dark Horizon, Maureen Reynolds continues her compelling story describing the trials and tribulations of working-class life in the close-knit community of pre-war and wartime Dundee.
A Private Sorrow
It's been just over a year since the opening of McQueen's Agency and already Molly is expanding the business. She's determined to move forward with her life, renovating the flat above the agency and putting last year's traumatic events behind her. But trouble seems to follow Molly and when a client's friend approaches her about helping discover the truth behind her daughter's disappearance, she sets out to unravel a web of lies twenty-five years in the making. Though Molly's investigation keeps meeting dead-ends, someone is willing to go to any length to ensure the past remains hidden. As people are hurt and Molly's own life is threatened, she quickly learns that what happened in the past is sometimes better left forgotten. "This is a cracking mystery story that will have you hooked." THE PEOPLE'S FRIEND
Dragon Land
An epic story of love, hope and survival from Scotland to Shanghai. When six-year-old Lizzie Flint's father, Peter, is killed in the trenches of the First World War, she knows life will never be the same again. And as Lizzie's mother Beth, who refuses to believe that Peter is dead, becomes isolated and embittered, she grows up taking care of her mother - at the cost of her own dreams of adventure. After her mother passes away, Lizzie finally tastes freedom when she travels to Hong Kong to be a teacher. There she falls in love not only with the country itself - the exotic Dragon Land - but with Jonas O'Neill, an author. Jonas and Lizzie marry and move to Shanghai, where they have a son. But as the Japanese army advances towards China, the family finds itself separated by the turmoil of war. In the midst of conflict in a foreign land, can Lizzie win her own battles, get herself to safety and reunite her family?
Indian Summer
There are lots of changes happening at Molly McQueen's Agency. Biggest of all is that Molly herself must decide whether or not she should move to Australia to be with her family. If she does, it will mean the end of the Agency she has dreamed of and worked so hard to build. Before she decides on her future, however, Molly enjoys a trip to Pitlochry Festival Theatre to see her old friend Deanna on stage. But when she goes for a walk through the hills at Killiecrankie she comes across a frightening scene. An elderly man has tumbled down a hill and has serious head injuries. As her friend goes for help, Molly stays with the man and tries to comfort him, convinced he does not have long to live. Then, unexpectedly, he hands her a pouch and tells her to "warn them." Little does she know that those words and the pouch the man has given her will set in motion a chain of events leading to one of the most challenging cases of her career.
Teatime Tales from Dundee
Maureen Reynolds was born and brought up in Dundee and her new collection of stories from the city is a nostalgic and affectionate look back at the city as it once was. These true tales are from the years before, during and after the Second World War and include a look at many aspects of now-forgotten life in Dundee. There are tales from the playground, of well-known local characters, of 'spookie nichts' and 'piggyback planes', ghost stories, tales of market days and tattie gatherers, all told with a genuine warmth that will appeal to Dundonians everywhere and anyone who enjoys a good old-fashioned tale.
McQueen's Agency
Molly McQueen needs a new challenge. Her move to Australia hasn't worked out and now she's back home and ready to start her new venture, McQueen's Agency. But Molly soon finds that hiring temps out to local businesses is tough going, until the day a lucrative job comes in which seems almost too good to be true. On her first day at the new job, Molly senses that something isn't quite right - but the Agency desperately needs the work. And when Molly begins to discover more about her employers and what they're really up to, she suddenly finds herself in grave danger. Meantime, for Detective Sergeant Charlie Johns, the mysterious discovery of a sailor's body in the harbour is about to get a whole lot stranger as more and more clues start to point straight to Molly McQueen.
Voices in the Street
Born in Dundee in 1938, Maureen Reynolds grew up in wartime Scotland, a young girl surrounded by adultconcerns. There was the endless queuing for rations that never seemed to stretch quite far enough, theblackouts and the air raids. But, if times were hard, they were also simpler and, in Voices in the Street Maureenremembers with great fondness her early years with her wise old grandad, the enjoyment of riding on tram cars,the weekly wash-house gossip and the people and places of her childhood.When she left school at fifteen, Maureen immediately started her working life with a job at the local sweetiefactory. Coming of age in the era of Teddy Boys and rock ?n? roll, she enjoyed dancing with her best friend Betty.Then, as Maureen grew up, she found her love, only to see him borrowed in the name of National Service. But,through good times and bad, she would never forget growing up in Dundee.Voices in the Street is an intimate and moving account of a life, reflecting the memories, hopes and fears of ageneration.
The Sunday Girls
A moving family saga from the author of the bestselling Voices in the Street It is the time of the Great Depression and jobs are scarce. Like many others in Dundee, the Neill family are struggling just to make ends meet. Ann would love to stay at school but, following the tragic death of her mother, she is forced to take a job as a housemaid to support her family. Her employer, Mrs Barrie, couldn't be kinder but the spiteful housekeeper, Miss Hood, has a guilty secret and is determined to make Ann's like a misery. Ann's desperation to provide for her family keeps her going through hard times until she meets Maddie, the daughter of a prosperous Dundee solicitor. The only thing they seem to have in common is that they were both born on a Sunday but soon the girls become firm friends and discover that, despite these being the hardest of hard times, they can still find fun and laughter to help them through good times and bad. Following the runaway success of Voices in the Street, Maureen Reynolds new trilogy starts with The Sunday Girls, a compelling story describing the trials and tribulations of working-class life, family and a close-knit community in pre-war Dundee.
