Meg Hutchinson: 9 books

Isabel Kenton is left to run the family business when her father dies on the eve of the Great War and her twin brother enlists in the Flying Corps. A clairvoyant tells Isabel that 'yours will be a different war' and so it proves to be as she faces hostility from the male-dominated steel industry,...

Saran Chandler is a locksmith's daughter but following her father's death, her happy family is torn apart and she is left to fend for herself. Luke Hipton is a workhouse orphan with a murky past who is wise beyond his years and becomes her loyal friend and companion. After the death...

Emma Lawrence endures harsh treatment at the hands of her aunt and uncle, the Gilmores, for the sake of her sister, Rachel. But after Rachel is brutally raped and strangled, Emma must escape to save her own life. She befriends Timothy and Lily Elsmore, two resourceful orphans who quickly become...

Rachel Cade is a miner's daughter on the run from a crime she did not commit. Jared Lytton is the hot tempered but well-meaning mine owner who cannot stop thinking about her. Stunned by her stepmother's accusation that she killed her beloved little brother, Rachel is even more shocked to be...

The Sanford family are dogged by misfortune. Callista Sanford's father was well educated but ended up working in a steel foundry, before mysteriously taking his own life. Callista is left struggling to support herself and her ailing mother. Regular employment eludes her, and her pride will not let...

Lizzie Burton is an orphan of mysterious origins. She has been a housemaid at Portland House for as long as she can remember. Deborah Hammond is also an orphan from the workhouse and, like Lizzie, has been in service since childhood. All the girls have is each other so when Lizzie gets pregnant...

It is 1914 and Europe is on the brink of war. Anne Corby flees Russia following the death of her parents, but as she is pregnant with an illegitimate child - the result a brutal rape - Anna returns to her home town of Darlaston, hoping to seek sanctuary with her Aunt Clara. She takes with her nothing...

Emma Price has eyes like a summer sky and is as kind and generous as she is beautiful. She is in love with Paul Felton and he with her, but their love seems sure to fail as Emma's father works in the coal mine that Paul will inherit when he comes of age. They are too in love to realise that their...

Miriam Bryce has never known her mother's love. And when she finds herself pregnant and deserted by her lover Saul, her mother is quick to throw her out of her home. Injured in an accident she is saved by a rich businessman who takes her into service. But life has more dark moments in store for Miriam,...