Bøger af Beryl (Author) Matthews

October 1943. Nancy Dalton, working at the RAF base at Scampton never intended to complicate wartime life with a romance with Canadian Steve Allard.

When Jane Roberts' husband, Bert, deserts her and their three children, the future looks bleak. With a helping hand and some fresh opportunities she manages to turn things around, but is Bert truly out of the picture?

London, 1910. Twins Lester and Lillia Holdsworth are destined for the stage, but their cruel father has other ideas for their future. Yet their plans to defy their father's wishes are put on hold when war breaks out in 1914. They wait in hope, like the rest of Europe, for the war to end and the music to start again.

1919, London's East End. Robert Hunter is eagerly awaiting the return of his father from the war. Next door, Ruth Cooper's family are also preparing to welcome her dad, whose ship was lost at Jutland. Emotions are running high for both young people.

Whitechapel, London 1890. Queenie Bonner is only two when she is taken from her large family in the slums to a big house in the country. She is frightened and confused, but she is told that this is now her home. Fifteen years later, Queenie sets about tracing her forgotten family. But the search holds pleasure, distress and even danger...

As World War II breaks out, four friends consider the changes that war will mean. Tomboyish Becky plans to join the ATS, her neighbours Bob and Jim the navy and army respectively. As the friends are separated, their youthful enthusiasm is tempered by the grim newspaper headlines and their own experiences.

London 1899. Gertrude Melrose loves her brother but he is in with a disreputable crowd and losing heavily at the gaming tables. He has already gambled away his inheritance and she cannot allow him to do that with hers. It will mean the loss of their house and almost everything they own. But the Melrose family are soon to receive devastating news...