Holly Green scrive saghe storiche sull'amore e sulla guerra, ispirate dalle storie che ascoltava dai suoi genitori da bambina. Suo padre era un cantante professionista e sua madre una ballerina, ma entrambi dovettero abbandonare le loro professioni allo scoppio della Seconda Guerra Mondiale. Green, originaria di Liverpool, è un'attrice e insegnante formata. Nella sua scrittura, si concentra sulle forti emozioni umane e sull'impatto degli eventi storici sulla vita personale.
Their father went away to sea never to return, and then their mother falls victim to the typhus sweeping through Liverpool. Regarded as orphans by the authorities, May and Gus are sent to the Brownlow Hill Workhouse. May and Gus will have to rely on each other more than ever if they are to survive the hardships to come...
Can this orphan ever fulfil her nursing dreams...? After her mother's death, Dora is sent to live with her father and his other family. But the fact that Dora is mixed race and illegitimate see her treated as little more than a servant by her step-mother and half siblings. This doesn't stop the son of the house abusing his position and Dora finds herself on the streets and pregnant... Sent to the local workhouse, Dora's future looks bleak but she still dreams of a better life where she can help others as her late mother did with her herbal remedies. But can a girl from a workhouse ever achieve anything, let alone become one of Florence Nightingale's nurses? ________________________________ Make sure you've read all the books in the Workhouse series: 1. Workhouse Orphans 2. Workhouse Angel 3. Workhouse Nightingale 4. Workhouse Girl And don't miss Holly Green's new series about wartime nurses: 1. Frontline Nurses 2. Frontline Nurses On Duty 3. Secrets of the Frontline Nurses
Vier Frauen, vier Schicksale. Ein Roman über Liebe und Freundschaft. Im beschaulichen Lakeview kennt jeder jeden. Und alle kommen sie zu Ella, um sich Rat in Liebes- und Lebensfragen zu holen. Ihr Café ist der Dreh- und Angelpunktdes kleinen irischen Dorfs. Eines Tages findet Ella ein Bündel vor ihrer Tür. Ein lebendes Baby! Ella ist schockiert. Könnte das Neugeborene von Nina sein, die sich vor kurzem von ihrem Freund getrennt hat? Oder von Ruth, der erfolgreichen Schauspielerin auf dem Sprung zur großen Karriere? Oder von Jess, deren Mann keine Kinder will? Eines jedenfalls ist klar: Am Ende dieses Sommers wird für alle vier Frauen nichts mehr so sein, wie es vorher war . . .