Time Will Tell

Literature & Fiction

Waite, Elizabeth

Contemporary

UK: Little Brown 2000

A London Lass

"A natural with a great sense of place." - BOOKLIST  A London childhood should be a time of happiness.  But for Jane Jeffrey, growing up in Tooting in the early 1920s, life is anything but.  For though Mickey Jeffrey is her mother's husband, he is not Jane's father, and for that he cannot forgive her.  It doesn't take much to spark off his black moods, moods which he takes out on Jane.  Her mother decides it would be in her daughter's best interests if she lived somewhere else.  Jane is sent to a children's home in Sussex, and for the time being she feels as if she is among friends.  Her sixteenth birthday comes round all too soon, and she faces the daunting double task of returning to London and finding a living...

Little,Brown & Co

Tooting, 1950: Ruby has always been a worry to her widowed mother Ida - her husband, Brian is violent and she loses her job after allegations of carrying on with the manager. When Brian dies suddenly, Ida is quietly relieved, but tragedy continues to stalk Ruby until she feels she must go away.

Trouble and Strife

Little,Brown

Second Chance

Time Warner Books Uk

'A natural, with a great sense of place' - BERYL KINGSTON With her red hair, sparkling eyes and shapely figure, Kate Kearsley appeared to be a very lucky young woman. The daughter of a successful boat yard owner in a charming hamlet near Kingston-upon-Thames, she saw good in everyone. But Kate was anything but lucky. In 1905, sixteen years before, her brother David had drowned in the Thames, but time had not healed the wounds of her grieving parents, nor lessened the violence meted out by her guilt-ridden father to his long-suffering wife. When Kate herself becomes a victim, Hilda Kearsley can take no more. Kate, so suddenly an orphan, is devastated. What is to become of her?

Kingston Kate (CH) (Charnwood Large Print Library Series)

Charnwood Crown

"A natural, with a great sense of place". - BERYL KINGSTON Flame-haired Wimbledon girl Joan Harvey could not have chosen a worse time to fall in love with East End looker Matt Pearson. With no end in sight to the Second World War, it is only a matter of time before he returns to the fight. So when Matt proposes, and Joan discovers she is pregnant, a rushed marriage is her only option. She then has to cope with the pregnancy on her own...When the war is over, she and Matt can begin to behave like a normal family. Finally, life is good. But then a call from a solicitor threatens to shatter Joan's hard fought happiness... A wartime family saga.

Time Will Tell (CH)

Genre Fiction

Charnwood

"A natural with a great sense of place." - BOOKLIST A London childhood should be a time of happiness. But for Jane Jeffrey, growing up in Tooting in the early 1920s, life is anything but. For though Mickey Jeffrey is her mother's husband, he is not Jane's father, and for that he cannot forgive her. It doesn't take much to spark off his black moods, moods which he takes out on Jane. Her mother decides it would be in her daughter's best interests if she lived somewhere else. Jane is sent to a children's home in Sussex, and for the time being she feels as if she is among friends. Her sixteenth birthday comes round all too soon, and she faces the daunting double task of returning to London and finding a living...

A London Lass (CH)

A heart-warming family saga - Emma Pearson offered a rural holiday to orphaned John and Tommy in the 1930s, and they become as close as family. Over the years the family stayed in touch, but when World War Two breaks out tragedy strikes when John is killed at Dunkirk. The lives of Tom and the Pearson family seem set to become more and more trying . . .

Safe Return Home

British & Irish

Severn House

A poignant family saga - Paula O'Brien wants to escape her family and start afresh, but she is scared of defying her abusive father. However, when she sees a newspaper advert for a live-in nanny her best friend Laura persuades her to apply. When Jeffrey Lawson, grieving for his beloved wife who died during childbirth, invites Paula to an interview, she doesn't realize it will change her life for ever . . .

Total Commitment

A heart-warming family saga Emma Pearson offered a rural holiday to orphaned John and Tommy in the 1930s, and they become as close as family. Over the years the family stayed in touch, but when World War Two breaks out tragedy strikes when John is killed at Dunkirk. The lives of Tom and the Pearson family seem set to become more and more trying . . .

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Books by Waite, Elizabeth

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Time Will Tell

A London Lass

Trouble and Strife

Second Chance

Kingston Kate (CH) (Charnwood Large Print Library Series)

Time Will Tell (CH)

A London Lass (CH)

Safe Return Home

Total Commitment

Safe Return Home