Under a Cloud-Soft Sky

Under a Cloud-Soft Sky
Author: Elizabeth Gill
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 162365517X

This is the inspiring story, set on the cusp of the 20th century, of four people struggling to leave the past behind them and find happiness together. In a small village in the north of England, Dennes Eliot has worked hard to create a better life for himself. Now a respectable worker at the local foundry and boarding with his friend Nat, he tries his best to forget his shameful beginnings. Grace Hemingway knows all about the foundry her father runs, and loves the community built around it. But as her parents are grooming her for a stunning London marriage to a man she's not yet met, and her friend Alexandra she bear to leave the place she calls home?

The Little Terrace by the Sea

The Little Terrace by the Sea
Author: Elizabeth Gill
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2016-03-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1784292567

From the bestselling author of Miss Appleby's Academy and Far From My Father's House comes a tale of love and sacrifice perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries, Anna Jacobs and Dilly Court. Jenna Duncan's only ambition is to marry the boy she loves and have a little terraced house away from her parents and her dull job. Ruari Gallacher has other ideas. Ruari is determined to break away from the little seaside town where his father died down the pit and make all his dreams come true as a professional footballer. But when Rauri lets Jenna down one too many times she becomes involved with another man, and by the time Ruari asks her to escape with him, it's far too late. Will Rauri succeed in capturing his dream, and has he scarified the love of the one person who can ever make him truly happy?

The Singing Winds

The Singing Winds
Author: Elizabeth Gill
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1623655110

A stark, emotive saga about love and loss in the North of England at the turn of the 20th century. On her father's death, Kate Ferrar is expected to move from London to a mining village in County Durham, to live with an uncle she barely knows. Restricted by the confines of polite society and hungry for education and honest company, she breaks all social rules by taking a job in her uncle's office. There she meets Jon Armstrong, a pit lad, tough, enigmatic and not at all the sort of man Kate should be consorting with. He's also engaged to a local girl Lizzie, while Kate's uncle is plotting a suitable marriage for her. But a sudden and shocking mining disaster almost destroys everything. Both Kate and Lizzie must draw on all their courage to survive, but their delicate position in the village threatens to collapse as disastrously as the mine on which their lives depend.

Miss Appleby's Academy

Miss Appleby's Academy
Author: Elizabeth Gill
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1623655153

A vivid and stirring love story about one womanâ??s struggle to survive in a rural village in northern England at the turn of the 20th century. Emma Appleby's arrival in the County Durham village of Tow Law is sudden and mysterious, provoking deep suspicion in the locals. Because she has a child with her, seemingly out of marriage, they want nothing to do with her - except for the local pub landlord Mick Castle. When Emma opens an academy and sets herself up in competition with the local school, she provokes a savage response from the community. But she will not be deterred--even when her past catches up with her and Mick is forced to choose between family and love.

For Love and Pride

For Love and Pride
Author: Elizabeth Gill
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2016-05-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1784292486

From the bestselling author of Miss Appleby's Academy comes a gritty story of tragedy and overcoming hardship, perfect for fans of Margaret Dickinson and Milly Adams. As a solicitor in the small northern mining town of Hexham, Sam Browne knows more than most about the affairs of the town's inhabitants. He has known several of his clients since his schooldays, and has become a fast friend to their growing families. But when tragedy strikes, affecting the town in many terrible ways, Sam finds himself unwillingly drawn into the complicated emotional entanglements that arise. Are Sam and his friends' lives to be forever changed by what has happened?

Snow Angels

Snow Angels
Author: Elizabeth Gill
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 460
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1623655137

A gripping tale of passion and enduring love spanning class and country in 19th century England. Abby Reed, grieving for her mother, finds an unexpected source of comfort and peace whilst exploring the wild, snowy countryside with the brooding Gillan Collingwood, son of local shipping merchant. But the moment Gill meets his brotherâ??s new wife Helen, he falls deeply and passionately in love with her. Shattered by his rejection, Abby turns instead to another man. Her sudden marriage takes her away to London's glittering social scene, but also to unhappiness and despair. She cannot forget Gill--has he forgotten her?

The Black Family Series

The Black Family Series
Author: Elizabeth Gill
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 662
Release: 2017-10-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1787472000

From the bestselling author of Miss Appleby's Academy, is the Black Family trilogy - available in omnibus form for the first time. Perfect for fans of Nadine Dorries, Donna Douglas and Diney Costeloe. Swan Island When Ella's father dies, leaving the family bankrupt, she must go and live with her grandmother, leaving everyone she knows - and loves - behind her. She eventually settles into a life of domesticity with a local businessman, David Black, but Ella can never quite forget her first love. Will she find the home she's always been looking for? Silver Street When Iris Black falls deeply for the handsome Johnny Fenwick, she is devastated to learn about his family's shocking secret and immediately leaves to train as a nurse. Her absence casts a dark shadow on the Black household, and as much as he tries to move on, will Johnny forever be plagued by the memory of the girl who left him behind? Sweet Wells After the death of her father, Maddy Grant learns that the home she has always known has been sold to a local businessman, Jonas Ward, who evicts Maddy and her mother. As they scrape to make ends meet and try as she might, she can't keep away from the influence of Jonas and finds herself falling for his handsome nephew. Can she ever come to terms with the ill his family has brought to hers?

Shelter from the Storm

Shelter from the Storm
Author: Elizabeth Gill
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 387
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1623655129

A tragic and moving rural saga Shelter from the Storm is a powerfully resonant novel about the consequences of early trauma and the harsh reality of life in a bygone age. After a deeply harrowing incident at the hands of mysterious stranger, a woman gives birth to a child and is persuaded by her husband to give him up to a local couple. On the same dark and stormy night, a local pit owner turns his wife out on to the bleak moors, telling her son she is evil. The woman is never seen again. Twenty years later, these seemingly unrelated childhood events have shaped the characters of these two unloved boys. Now grown men, they in turn will wreak havoc in the lives of others, and as the past reaches out and casts a shadow over the present, as a consequence the lives of two innocent young women will be changed forever.

The Road to Berry Edge

The Road to Berry Edge
Author: Elizabeth Gill
Publisher: Quercus
Total Pages: 367
Release: 2014-06-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1623655145

A beautifully written and deeply evocative story of love and loss in regency England, The Road to Berry Edge explores the pain of bereavement and the joy of learning to love again. As Rob Berkeley comes home to Berry Edge, ten years after his brother's terrible death, he brings with him memories that Faith Norman, his dead brother's fiancée, would rather leave in the past. Driven by guilt, Rob is determined to bring the family steelworks business back to full strength, but he cannot escape the memory of the part he played in Faithâ??s bereavement and the debt he owes to both her and Berry Edge. The secrets he hides from the community around him could threaten his very future, and jeopardize his growing feelings for Faith.

Skyfall

Skyfall
Author: Elizabeth Munro
Publisher: Blue Swell Books
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2014-06-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0991975901

When Cloud is expelled from Master Sky’s ranger training program, the last gryphon she expects to find at her den is her old lover Soar. Now she’s the only gryphon with the skills to get inside a corrupt Calgary eyrie and Soar needs her in more ways than one. Cloud has little choice but to accept the mission. Success will get her back in Sky’s good books but accepting Soar as her working partner will either heal her broken heart or ruin it completely. Master Soar walked out of Cloud’s life when her departure to the ranger program was inevitable. She was motivated, beautiful and too young to tie herself to someone like him. As much as it hurt, it was better to let her go. But when the Calgary eyrie is at the centre of a conspiracy to destroy his own, he’s forced to play every card he has, including Cloud. When Cloud shuts him out and starts to operate on her own he has no choice but to go in after her, risking the entire mission to get the gryphon he loves out alive.