Annie Murray

Working at the local pearl button factory, Ada Fletcher is doing her best to make ends meet in trying times.

Evie spent her early years left outside on the step. With a drunk for a father and a neglectful mother, all little Evie has ever craved is a safe home and a normal existence....

Anna Craven grew up captivated by stories of her mother's childhood in Birmingham and of Kate's friend, Olivia....

1950 - Seven year old Carol Martin lies encased in an iron lung, struck down by the killer disease, polio....

August 1939. Genie Watkins, a Birmingham kid, would love to have a proper happy family like her Italian friend, Teresa. But Genie hasn't reckoned with the outbreak of war....

Maryann Nelson's widowed mother, Flo, sees the opportunity to better her family by marrying the local undertaker, Norman Griffin....

It is 1942, and after a childhood of suffering in Birmingham, Maryann Bartholomew has built a life of happiness and safety with her husband, Joel, and their children....

Pretty 17-year-old Greta has never known a stable family life....

From the best-selling author of Chocolate Girls....

Three very different women work together at Cadbury's Bournville factory, and their lives become entwined by war and work: and a child called David....

In the New Year of 1936, Gwen Purdy, aged 21, leaves her home to become a schoolteacher in a poor area of Birmingham....

A sequel to The Hopscotch Summer....

Emma Brown is a happy-go-lucky child, content to work hard at school, and to play hopscotch with her friends on the pavement outside her house in the run-down Nechells area of Birmingham....

It is 1946: The war is over and three young women face a new kind of life. But peacetime brings its own pressures....

In 1984, two young mothers meet at a toddler group in Birmingham....

Jessica Hart's life is changed forever with the death of her mother. Her manipulative new stepmother tries to force her into marrying an older man....

Beautiful, dark-haired Lily has been abandoned in a Birmingham slum as a tiny child. With few clues as to her identity she endures a childhood of loneliness and loss....

The early 1900s: Cradley Heath, a town in the Black Country near Birmingham and centre of the world’s chain-making trade. Lucy Butler, a young girl crippled by a cruel accident, lives with her two brothers and widowed mother, a chain-maker barely making ends meet....

In Secrets at Bletchley Park by Margaret Dickinson, two young women from very different backgrounds meet in the Second World War and are plunged into a life where security and discretion are paramount. But both have secrets of their own to hide....

Two families. Two wartime loves. Their lives changed forever....