Margaret Dickinson

It's 1919 in Ashford-in-the-Water, Derbyshire. The Ryan family are adjusting to life in the aftermath of the First World War....

A matter of honour. A sense of duty. A time for courage....

Rose and Myrtle Sylvester look up to their older sister, Peggy. She is the sensible, reliable one in the household of women headed by their grandmother, Grace Booth, and their mother, Mary Sylvester....

There are some things which even the closest friendship cannot survive....

For Eveleen Hardcastle life gets no better than growing up on Pear Tree Farm in the Lincolnshire countryside....

Another outstanding regional historical saga from the Queen of Lincolnshire-based fiction....

Is it possible for a 10-year-old girl to fall in love? Jenny Mercer thinks so....

Polly Longden's china-doll looks belie a strong and fiery personality. When typhoid strikes her home city of Lincoln, she needs every ounce of that strength in order to cope....

Fleur Bosley didn't believe in love at first sight, at least not until she bumped into Robbie Rodwell on a railway station in the blackout of wartime Britain....

A richly absorbing tale of the lives and loves of the river folk....

When Florrie Maltby defies her father by refusing to marry Gervase Richards, she sets off a chain of events that will alter her life....

An enthralling story of love, rivalry and courage....

Kathy Burton longs to escape the drudgery of her life as an unpaid labourer on her father's farm. With only the local church choir and the occasional dance....

Hannah Francis has been forced to leave her beloved mother and the life she knows in the silk mill town of Macclesfield and is set to become an apprentice at a cotton mill in the Derbyshire dales....

Charlotte is an only child, reared by a brutal father who cannot forgive her for not being the son he desires....

As the storm clouds of war gather over Britain, two brave young women will discover the value of true friendship as they deal with troubles of their own while the lives of those they love are put at risk....

Meg Kirkland fears her impudent tongue has caused her father's dismissal from his job and forced her whole family from their home on Middleditch Farm....

In a drunken haze and scarcely realising what he is doing, Eddie takes desperate, bedraggled Anna home, even though his wife is a tyrant, who will believe the worst....

It is 1914, and Eveleen Hardcastle, now in in her early thirties, has married Richard....

Emma Forrest has waited three long years to welcome home the man she loves from the horror of the trenches....