Penelope Freeman

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A Child is Born

A Child is Born

Christmas Eve, 1936. On a foggy December night, a pregnant woman walks out in front of a trolley bus and is knocked unconscious. She is rushed to the Nightingale hospital, and a healthy baby is delivered. But the mother claims to have lost her memory,...

A Christmas Secret

A Christmas Secret

Soundings and Choc Lit present the audiobook edition of A Christmas Secret. When Hugo McCreadie steps into Isla Brodie’s pet portrait studio to get a “Festive Furball Photo Shoot” for his sister’s cat Schubert, he does question his sanity. But he...

A Christmas Wish

A Christmas Wish

Bristol 1927Ten year old Magda Brodie’s world is torn apart when her mother dies in the workhouse two weeks before Christmas.Her wastrel father arranges for her sisters to be sent to their grandparents in Ireland and for her younger brother to be...

A Cornish Betrothal

A Cornish Betrothal

Cornwall, 1798. Eighteen months have passed since Midshipman Edmund Melville was declared missing, presumed dead, and Amelia Carew has fallen in love with a young physician, Luke Bohenna. But, on her birthday, Amelia suddenly receives a letter from...

A Nightingale Christmas Carol

A Nightingale Christmas Carol

With her husband Nick away fighting, Dora struggles to keep the home fires burning, but finds herself in a difficult position when she is put in charge of a ward of injured German POWs. Can she find it in her heart to care for her enemies? Fellow...

A Nightingale Christmas Promise

A Nightingale Christmas Promise

London, 1914. While young men enlist up and down the country, the Nightingale Hospital has its own set of new recruits…Anna Beck is the daughter of the best baker in Bethnal Green. Her German father built the business out of nothing but, as the shadow...

A Nightingale Christmas Wish

A Nightingale Christmas Wish

As Christmas 1938 approaches, the staff at the Nightingale Hospital have their own wishes for the festive season. Ward sister Frannie Wallace is hoping she won't have to live through another war like the one that claimed her fiance. Staff Nurse Helen...

A Place to Call Home

A Place to Call Home

East Kent, 1876. With doting parents and siblings she adores, 16-year-old Rose Cheevers leads a contented life at Willow Place in Canterbury. A bright future ahead of her, she dreams of following in her mother’s footsteps and becoming a teacher. Then...

A Tangled Thread

A Tangled Thread

Three widely separated households – one in Scotland, one in the north of England and one in the south – have known the pain of losing a loved one; losses which, over the years, have shaped the characters of those left behind. But it takes the untimely...

A Very Modern Marriage

A Very Modern Marriage

Manchester industrialist William Rose was a poor lad who pulled himself up by his bootstraps, but in order to achieve his greatest ambitions he must become the epitome of Victorian respectability: a family man. But the only woman who's caught his eye...

A Vintage Vacation

A Vintage Vacation

Laugh-out-loud women's fiction from the #1 bestselling author of The Old Ducks' Club!'I've loved all of Maddie Please's books but this is my favourite so far - superb characters and a warm, wonderful story. Bravo!' Judy LeighClover Harrington might be...

A Wartime Friend

A Wartime Friend

Will an unlikely friendship be enough to save them?After escaping a train bound for a death camp with a trusty German Shepherd dog, a girl wakes to find that she has no memory of her former life.Lily is fostered by the kind RAF pilot who found her and...

1851. After her husband saved her from a life of prostitution, Louisa Hill was briefly happy as a housewife in Bristol. But then, her husband is found dead. Left with no means of income, Louisa knows she has nothing to turn to but her old way of life....

Kate Channer thought married life was going to be a grand adventure. But when Luke ships off for war before the echoes of their vows have ended she’s left behind, desperate to make a difference and bring him home. Yet life in Devon as ladies-maid to...

After the Storm

After the Storm

Hugo Kendal and his wife Margaret finally receive a royal pardon and are permitted at last to return to their beloved homeland. Most of the family warmly welcome the couple and the news that they are soon to become three. However, despite the smiles...

Against the Light

Against the Light

London, April 1912. The third Irish Home Rule Bill is passing through Parliament and the situation is growing ever more tense. Closely involved in the negotiations, cabinet minister Edmund Latimer finds himself under growing pressure which only...

Bay Tree Cottage

Bay Tree Cottage

The houses in Saffron Lane are being filled with artists thanks to the efforts of Nell and Angus. Ginger doesn’t win a place there, but gets a job running the small café/art gallery, taking refuge there from her abusive bully of a son. When she meets...

In the aftermath of the Second World War, two women leave England for new lives as GI brides. Gracie Brown starts her married life living with her husband Jeff’s family: an overbearing mother-in-law and a brother-in-law whom her husband detests....

When Major Charles Davenport is evacuated to England, to recuperate from a battle wound received at Tobruk, a letter is awaiting him from his wife in London informing him that she wants a divorce. Mary Kennedy is a young Irish-American who has moved...

Christmas at Black Cherry Retreat

Christmas at Black Cherry Retreat

Soundings and Choc Lit present the audiobook edition of Christmas at Black Cherry Retreat. When Fee Winter books a winter break at the remote Black Cherry Retreat in the small town of Pine Ridge, Tennessee, it’s with the idea that the peace and quiet...

Christmas at Borteen Bay

Christmas at Borteen Bay

Soundings and Choc Lit present the audiobook edition of Christmas at Borteen Bay. Christmas is a bittersweet time for Pippa Freeman. There are good memories, of course – but some painful ones too. Then her mother is implicated in a mysterious...

Christmas at War

Christmas at War

No turkey. No fruit to make a decent pudding. No money for presents. Your children away from home; your husband, father and brothers off fighting. How in the world does one celebrate Christmas? That was the situation facing the people of Britain for...

Christmas in Peppercorn Street

Christmas in Peppercorn Street

Christmas is approaching but the mood on Peppercorn Street is anything but jolly. Claire is convinced her stalker ex will catch up with her and her young daughter, and Luke is finding that living with his estranged teenage daughter brings its own...

Cinnamon Gardens

Cinnamon Gardens

Now that Nell’s three sons are in work and becoming more independent, she’s ready to build a new life for herself. She’s been left a house in England and decides to leave Australia to start a new chapter. On her arrival at Peppercorn Street, Nell...

Death's Dark Shadow

Death's Dark Shadow

A nameless victim. An unknown killer. An impossible case for Monika Paniatowski. Before she can even begin to track down the killer of the old woman dumped by the lonely canal, Monika Paniatowski needs to find out who she is – and no one seems to...