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Titles in This Set
The Paper Mill Girl
The Tuppenny Child
The Miner's Lass
The Toffee Factory Girls
The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon
Pearl of Pit Lane
Belle of the Back Streets
Secrets of the Toffee Factory Girls
Details
Condition: Brand New
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Headline
Age Range: Adult
Overview
Step into the hard-working, close-knit communities of County Durham and North East England with this collection of eight emotional sagas from bestselling author Glenda Young. Spanning paper mills, pit villages and toffee factories, each story follows a determined young woman fighting poverty and hardship to build a better life. Perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Rosie Goodwin and Catherine Cookson, this set is a wonderful gift for any saga reader.
About the Books
This eight-book collection brings together some of Glenda Young's most loved historical sagas, set against the backdrop of early twentieth-century industrial England. In The Paper Mill Girl, seventeen-year-old Ruth Hardy works gruelling shifts at Grange Paper Works while caring for her ailing parents, only for a dangerous secret to threaten everything she holds dear. The Tuppenny Child follows Ruby Dinsdale, seeking work and a home in a County Durham pit village after a life of hardship. The Miner's Lass and Pearl of Pit Lane continue the mining-village thread, exploring women whose fathers, husbands and brothers risk their lives underground. The Toffee Factory Girls and its sequel, Secrets of the Toffee Factory Girls, take readers to a Chester-le-Street toffee factory during the First World War, where sugar rationing threatens jobs. The Girl with the Scarlet Ribbon opens with a newborn abandoned with only a scarlet ribbon for identification, and Belle of the Back Streets rounds out the set with another feisty heroine navigating poverty and romance. Together, these sagas offer absorbing, heartfelt storytelling rooted in working-class history, each a standalone read enjoyed in any order.
- Eight complete paperback sagas by a bestselling, award-shortlisted author
- Rich North East English settings: pit villages, paper mills and toffee factories
- Feisty, inspiring female leads facing real historical hardship
- Perfect for fans of Dilly Court, Rosie Goodwin and Catherine Cookson
- Great value multi-book gift set for saga and historical fiction lovers
- Each title can be read as a standalone story
About the Author
Glenda Young is a bestselling British author known for her feisty, dramatic historical sagas, as well as cosy crime novels set in Scarborough shortlisted for Best New Crime Series alongside Richard Osman and Val McDermid. She has been praised on Woman's Hour, BBC Radio 4, as "such a good writer." A prize-winning short story writer, her fiction has appeared in The Express, Take a Break and The People's Friend, for which she also writes the weekly soap opera Riverside.
Why You'll Love This Collection
Eight unforgettable sagas in one brand new paperback set, packed with resilient heroines, authentic North East history and all the warmth, grit and emotion saga readers crave. A fantastic gift or treat for yourself.
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