Adelaide Q Roby: 5 books

**1893, Salton, Lancashire. ** Jonathan Spencer is a cotton-spinner's son born in the age of industrial expansion, growing up working in a cotton mill during a time of rapid social change. Victorian class boundaries are becoming blurred, and Jonathan seizes every opportunity available...

1880, Lanchester. Charles Pindar is born into a respected, hard-working farming family to Samuel Pindar's young second wife, Daisy, a delicate town-girl, who dies as soon as he is born. From the outset, the clever, dark Charles is different from his half-siblings, who are content to...

Star's End, Lanchester Fifteen-year-old Juana Casson, the unloved daughter of a stern farmer and his long-gone gypsy bride, finds her solace in the companionship of Peter Mount, the nephew of a wealthy man, even as rumours surround the truth of her doubtful parentage. Henry Langton,...

**It is the turn of the nineteenth century. ****A boat is wrecked on the Cornish shore, and an orphaned baby is rescued by local fisherman, John Prother. ** The Prother's have lost their own sons to the stormy sea, and only have one daughter - Prue - still surviving. So they decided...

1960's England. Caroline Maxwell has felt a presence in her parent's ancient home, Stonecroft Manor, for almost as long as she can remember. As a child she encountered another young girl, dressed in strange clothing, roaming the grounds. Her parents dismissed this vision as childhood...