1930, Charlotte returns to Darjeeling after years in boarding school and finds her father has just passed away, leaving the tea plantation and business to her. But this comes with some particular wishes her father has expressed with respect to her life. But she may have different plans…The love Charlotte has for Darjeeling comes through... Continue Reading →
Three sisters - Hélène, Elise and Florence - live in a beautiful little house away from Sainte Cécile, a village in Dordogne, not too far from Sarlat. They moved when their father passed away and have remained there because of the Second World War. We are now in 1944 and the three sisters are longing... Continue Reading →
I always look forward to Tracy Rees’s books and this one was another very good read. The story takes place in the late 1890s in London and brings together the lives of three very different women. Mabs is poor and works as a labourer on the canal, dressed as a boy, to help her family... Continue Reading →
Rose lives in the small Irish town of Ballykillen with her mother and sisters. They are very modest and Rose is delighted when she and her friend Polly get a job in a hotel in Cork. There, she meets a gentleman, David, who later asks her to work for his family as companion for his... Continue Reading →
This book is set in the aftermath of the Second World War. Edith, an English schoolteacher, is sent to Germany as part of the post-war effort to rebuilt in various domains, hers being education. But Edith is also given other, more underground, tasks. She has to gather information destined to help her friends and the... Continue Reading →
In The House at Silvermoor, Tracy Rees takes us to the mining villages in Yorkshire in the late 19th – early 20th century. The story is told by youngsters Josie and Tommy, who have grown up in two mining communities, and we are drawn into their life, their thoughts, their sorrows and their dreams. Through... Continue Reading →
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