Val Wood: 25 books

Book cover of The Maid's Secret

The Maid's Secret

Short Story

by Val Wood
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2013

An exclusive short story from this much-loved author The truth could change the lives of all those around her. Ellen has worked as a servant girl since she was twelve - her mother had always taught her that she must earn her own keep until she finds someone to marry. After a year...
Book cover of Nobody's Child
by Val Wood
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011

When Laura Page returns to the remote Holderness village of Welwick, it is to try and discover the mystery of her mother Susannah's early life. Now a prosperous businesswoman in Hull, Susannah never speaks of her childhood, when she was brought up with the terrible stigma of bastardy - of being nobody's...
Book cover of Homecoming Girls
by Val Wood
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010

Hull, 1874. The beautiful, mysterious Jewel Newmarch, adopted as a baby, turns heads wherever she goes - her exotic looks point to her origins far away from the streets of Hull. Even at her cousin Elizabeth's wedding, she is the belle of the ball. But as she looks on at the happy, newly-married couple...
Book cover of The Gypsy Girl
by Val Wood
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010

When Polly Anna's mother died when she was just three years old, it seemed the workhouse was the only place for her to go. But with the help of Jonty - a young misfit who soon became her best friend - she managed to escape, running away with the fairground folk. She became a horserider and acrobat,...
Book cover of The Long Walk Home
by Val Wood
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2009

Young Mikey Quinn, scavenging on the streets of Hull, is thrown into prison for stealing a rabbit from the butcher. His chief accuser, a well-to-do lawyer, has a daughter, Eleanor, whom he badly mistreats. When Mikey is released he finds that his mother has died and his brothers taken into the workhouse...
Book cover of Early Childhood Studies

Early Childhood Studies

Principles and Practice

by Jane Johnston, Lindy Nahmad-Williams, Ruby Oates
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2018

This fully updated new edition offers a comprehensive, accessible, yet rigorous introduction to the study of Early Childhood that will will add value to any Early Childhood Studies course at both foundation and degree level. Addressing both care and education in the Early Years, the book considers...
Book cover of Emily
by Val Wood
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010

Emily was only five years old when she was sent away from her ma and pa and her brother Joe to go and live with old Granny Edwards. A loving and hard-working child, she goes into service when she is twelve at the house of Roger Francis, whose connections with Emily's own family prove to be closer...
Book cover of Fallen Angels
by Val Wood
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2008

After her dastardly husband Billy tries to sell her at a wife sale, Lily Fowler finds herself alone, frightened and heavily pregnant on the streets of Hull. Her brave attempts to find work are futile and when she is turned away from the workhouse and other such establishments for women in her...
Book cover of The Kitchen Maid
by Val Wood
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011

Jenny is determined to make her own way in the world, and she secures a job as the kitchen maid in a grand house in Beverley.She gradually gains the attention of Christy, the young master of the house, and they fall in love.But slowly their hopes and dreams turn to nightmares and culminate in a scandal...
Book cover of The Songbird
by Val Wood
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011

The choice was hers - fame and fortune or true love. Poppy Mazzini, born in Hull over her father's grocery shop, lives up to the promise of her fiery red hair and Italian ancestry. Her lovely singing voice and good looks lead her to her great ambition - to go on the stage and see her name top...
Book cover of Far From Home
by Val Wood
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011

When Georgiana Gregory and her maid, Kitty, make the long sea journey from their native Hull for New York, they are expecting to begin a new life in the heady freedom of the newly-formed United States of America. Georgiana wants to escape from the confines of English life, and to savour a land of...
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