Clare Flynn: 5 books

This collection of nine short stories comes from award-winning historical fiction author, Clare Flynn. There are five historical tales – four based on stories from her own family history and one a tragic tale from eighteenth century Sussex. Clare has also branched out into contemporary fiction with...

Life can change in the matter of a moment... Since escaping his family’s notoriety in Australia Will Kidd has spent a decade sailing the seas, never looking back. Content to live the life of a wanderer, everything changes in a single moment when he comes face to face with a ghost from his past on...

A gripping saga of love, duty, sacrifice and determination in the aftermath of the First World War. Martha Walters is the widow of an abusive man. She has nothing and is now about to lose her home. Christopher Shipley is the reluctant heir to a substantial family fortune. He has more money...

In 1875 a young man, Jack Brennan, from a large and impoverished Catholic family refuses to be pushed like his brothers into the priesthood and runs away from home to become a teacher. Jack falls in love with Eliza Hewlett, but his dreams and plans are thwarted when his landlord's daughter,...

A wrenching saga of the voyage that changed their lives. Elizabeth Morton, born into a prosperous family, and Michael Winterbourne, a miner, come from different worlds but when they each suffer unspeakable and life-changing tragedy they’re set on a path that intertwines on the deck of the SS Historic,...