‘This is a gem. Kate Atkinson fans will love it’ Irish IndependentIn a world of lonely hearts, are there enough happy endings to go around?Marriage matchmaker seeks assistant; discretion essential, rose-tinted glasses optional…Matchmaker Martha Hart never got her happy ending: the Great War destroyed those dreams. Instead, her life's mission is to bring hope to other lonely hearts, though eligible bachelors are thin on the ...

Fernside House, nestled at the end of a quiet road, is waiting for eighty girls to disturb its holiday peace …Cousins Robin and Linnet are back at Fernside and school life is busier than ever – with the animals at Rowanbank, a new science class, netball rivalry and fun in the dorms.But the end-of-term exams are not the only test for the girls. As the lower fourth face the good and the bad times of growing up and the cancellation of the Christmas Show, a sur...

In a powerful collection, eleven internationally acclaimed fiction writers draw on personal objects to bring the First World War to life for listeners of all ages.A toy soldier. A butter dish. A compass. Mundane objects, perhaps, but to the remarkable authors in this collection, artifacts such as these have inspired stories that go to the heart of the human experience of World War I. Each author was invited to choose an object that had a connection to the war—a wri...

‘This is a gem. Kate Atkinson fans will love it’ Irish IndependentIn a world of lonely hearts, are there enough happy endings to go around?Marriage matchmaker seeks assistant; discretion essential, rose-tinted glasses optional…Matchmaker Martha Hart never got her happy ending: the Great War destroyed those dreams. Instead, her life's mission is to bring hope to other lonely hearts, though eligible bachelors are thin on the ...

Yorkshire,1936. April McVey is in charge of True Minds Marriage Bureau, trying to find happy futures for the lovelorn of Easterbridge, while the menace of fascism marches through the country.After two years of matchmaking, she thinks she has seen it all. But when an old friend arrives from Ireland, with a broken heart that's well beyond April's experience, and then a young nun asks her to find a match for her lonely brother, the consequences are shattering.And as political ...

An invigorating tale of suffragettes and heroes, courage and survival, as World War One ends, a pandemic sweeps the land – and women get to vote!Stella has always looked forward to changing the world. It’s what she was brought up to do, by a suffragette mother who knew all about fighting and rebellion. But it’s November 1918. The great flu pandemic sweeping the world has robbed Stella of her mother and her home, and she’s alone in a strange country, with an aunt sh...