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We mainly use Royal Mail Tracked 48 Service for goods which weight less then 2kg, all other goods will be delivered by a Courier. Meg Kirkland fears her impudent tongue has caused her father's dismissal from his job and forced her whole family from their home on Middleditch Farm. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Her young granddaughter, Bridie, still lives at home, and is beautiful, but has a spirited, strong will which her grandmother finds hard to control. In Secrets at Bletchley Park by Margaret Dickinson, two young women from very different backgrounds meet in the Second World War and are plunged into a life where security and discretion are paramount.

The Sunday Times top ten selling author and her fans are familiar with the theme, most of her 38 books - the past 29, including latest novel with publisher Pan MacMillan - are set during the First and Second World Wars, featuring strong, female characters. Peter and Carolyn are great friends but do not see a future together, although it is the dearest wish of both mothers to see them marry. If you fail to comply with this obligation, we may have a right of action against you for compensation. Trip is now a partner with his half-brother in the Trippet family's cutlery manufacturing business, but their success is threatened by the Great Depression of the 1930s. Evacuated to Lincolnshire from the East End of London at the outbreak of war, she is frightened of the wide open spaces and the huge skies.The first regional saga she penned was the Gibraltar Point and Church Farm Museum-inspired “Plough the Furrow. And she reveals the name of her landmark forthcoming 30th book with Pan MacMillan and her books she would love to see turned into a TV series. Brought there by her mother's ambitious schemes for her brother, Josh, she had found work as a buffer girl polishing cutlery for the city's famous trade. Tony, on the other hand, is pretty similar to Kathy in that you feel for him, albeit annoying at times because of the way he's always putting his mother first.

Kathy escaped a very unhappy home to find a better life in the city, Friends helped her find a job and somewhere to live, friends that would always be there for her. However, after the battleaxe stages an intervention at their wedding, the book starts to pick up and goes on to cover most of the war years. As the First World War breaks out, Eveleen, a sophisticated young woman, is left to manage the factory while Richard goes off to fight for his country. The Ryan children grew up with Amy Clark, daughter of the village blacksmith, and Thomas 'Trip' Trippett, whose father owns a cutlery business in Sheffield. Posted to a newly built Lincolnshire airfield, Robbie as a wireless operator on bombers and Fleur as a R/T operator in the watch office, their only escape is to the little cottage in the nearby village where Fleur is billeted with another WAAF, Ruth.A Mother's Sorrow is a heart-rending family saga set around WW1 from bestselling author and Queen of the Saga, Margaret Dickinson. Hannah Francis has been forced to leave her beloved mother and the life she knows in Macclesfield to become an apprentice at a cotton mill in the Derbyshire dales.

Kathy has a powerful singing voice and she is able to do her bit for the war effort by joining a concert party going round entertaining workers and troops. Everything she does she thinks is for the best interest of her son, to keep him forever close, but she’s just causing him pain and suffering - which is what happens when somebody puts their own needs before others, as she always seems to do. When Peter decides to volunteer, a distraught Phyllis blames Carolyn who leaves to join the ATS where she meets Beryl Morley who will become a lifelong friend.Kathy, though naive at first (which was realistic given her upbringing), was a good character and really came into her own as the story went on.

Set in the period just before and during World War II, this is the story of Kathy who leaves a violent home and makes her way in the world. Martha Ryan is fiercely ambitious for her son and so she uproots her family to Sheffield, but all Josh wants is to continue the family business and marry Amy. Determined to enjoy life after the years of misery, and to help her forget a broken love affair, she seeks excitement in the London parties and balls of the Roaring Twenties. Although it was awful not to see your family and friends, my daily life wasn't a lot different because I'm used to being in an office on my own writing. A tale of unbreakable bonds in times of strife, Margaret’s characters and beautifully woven stories will stay with you far beyond the final page.Following the gripping story of the Ryan family in Margaret Dickinson's top ten bestseller The Buffer Girls, Daughters of Courage sees Emily and Trip fight to keep their new life afloat in the turbulent 1930s. Darley who has been her agent for more than twenty-five years happens to be the agent for very popular authors such as John Connelly and Lee Child.