Workhouse Lass

A warm-hearted saga set in the North East - Lottie is just three years old when her mammy dies and she is sent to the workhouse. Just thirteen when a job is found for her looking after a miners family. And still a mere lass when she runs away. A childhood spent in poverty has left no opportunity for education. Yet when a kindly Methodist preacher offers adult literacy classes, Lottie seizes her chance and a new door opens.

Literature & Fiction

Horne, Una

Genre Fiction

Severn House

A warm-hearted saga set in the North East - Lottie is just three years old when her mammy dies and she is sent to the workhouse.  Just thirteen when a job is found for her looking after a miner’s family. And still a mere lass when she runs away. A childhood spent in poverty has left no opportunity for education. Yet when a kindly Methodist preacher offers adult literacy classes, Lottie seizes her chance – and a new door opens.

Jewel Streets

Contemporary

Piatkus

After being forced out of her home, Molly gets a job as a factory hand and lodgings in a comfortless house. Her landlord takes a shine to her, but when she rebuffs his advances she is thrown in prison. The only source of light comes from Jackson, a young soldier, but can she escape her past?

The Marble Clock

Piatkus Books

The Ironmaster's Girl

In the poverty-stricken mining town of Winton, Katie Benfield lives with her grandparents to ease the pressure on her own mother's full house. Despite the hardships, Katie achieves her goal of becoming a probationer nurse. She is determined to have a career, and even puts off marrying her childhood sweetheart Billy to achieve her dreams. Then tragedy strikes, and Billy and her grandfather are both killed in a mining accident. Distraught, Katie finds herself vulnerable to the advances of local ironmaster, Matthew Hamilton, a married man. Thrown out by her grandmother, isolated and pregnant, Katie's future is far from certain. And then Matthew Hamilton offers her an alternative to a home for unmarried mothers, but only if she forgoes her principles and becomes his mistress...

Romance

Piatkus Hb/Tpb

When tragedy deprives Lorinda of her family, she is sent to live with her aunt Doris. Treated as an unpaid servant, alone and loveless, Lorinda craves affection. Then she falls in love with Johnny Fenwick, one of her aunt's boarders. When it seems that her relationship with Johnny is doomed to failure, young doctor Tom Gray offers another way out. Trapped in a marriage to a husband whose passion she cannot return, Lorinda believes that she has lost her only chance of happiness...

Lorinda Leigh

Magna Large Print Books

<p>Theda and Clara Wearmouth were named after their mother's favourite film stars, but that is the only glamour in their lives; the thirties are lean years in the Durham coalfields and the Wearmouths are hard pushed to get by. Nursing offers an escape and when war breaks out Theda's skills are in great demand. Her career compensates her for the loss of her fiance, Alan, lost in action. She meets Major Ken Collins, whose cool exterior belies his warm and passionate nature and allows herself to love again, but then Theda is faced with the most agonising dilemma of her life... "Watch out Catherine Cookson - Una Horne is catching up" - NORTHERN ECHO</p>

A Time To Heal

<p>When Molly Mason's father dies in a pit accident, she is forced out of their tied cottage and left with nothing but an old marble clock, her only heirloom. Her brother Harry is in the army, but Molly manages to find a job and lodgings. When she rebuffs the advances of her cantankerous landlord, his revenge is swift, and she finds herself in prison. Her only solace is her brother's best friend, Jackson, and Molly feels the first stirrings of attraction for the young soldier - but even on her release Molly cannot escape the shame of her past.</p>

Young Katie Benfield achieves her goal of becoming a probationer nurse at the South-East Durham Hospital, even though she has to put off marrying her childhood sweetheart Billy to complete her training. Then tragedy strikes and Billy and her grandfather are killed in a mining accident. Shocked and distraught, Katie is vulnerable to the advances of the local ironmaster, Matthew Hamilton. Shunned, isolated and pregnant, Katie's future is uncertain, until Matthew Hamilton offers her an alternative to the home for unmarried mothers - but only if she forgoes her principles and becomes his mistress.

Child of Sorrow

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Workhouse Lass

Workhouse Lass

Jewel Streets

The Marble Clock

The Ironmaster's Girl

Lorinda Leigh

A Time To Heal

The Marble Clock

The Ironmaster's Girl

Child of Sorrow