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TROUBLED
WATERS
2002 Hardback; Paperback; Large Print, Book Club, Audio
When 14-year old Sara Jenkins rescues her baby sister, Myfanwy, from the fire which kills their mother, little does she realise the burden of responsibility she is taking on. Before she finds true happiness she has to face many hardships and fight for herself and Myfanwy and her own unborn child.
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ONE
STEP FORWARD
2003 Hardback; Paperback; Large Print, Book Club, Audio
Life is hard for Katie when her handsome but wicked father, Lewis, is imprisoned leaving her and her mother penniless and living in Cardiff's Tiger Bay. When Lewis is released many years later it seems that life must improve but to Katie's horror it becomes worse and there is danger and difficulties at every turn Life seems to be one step forward, two steps back but Katie never gives up.
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PINS
& NEEDLES
2005 Hardback; Paperback; Large Print, Book Club
Tanwen and Donna Evans are twins, but they could not be more different.
Tanwen is pert and pretty, a bubbly extrovert, but selfish and as sharp as a needle.
Donna is plain, placid, warm-hearted and as sturdy and useful as a pin.
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AT
SIXES & SEVENS
2005 Hardback; Paperback; Large Print, Book Club
Rhianon and Sabrina Webster are born into a humble mining community. Their stern father dotes on his youngest daughter, beautiful, flighty Sabrina, but it is homely, Rhianon, who strives to keep their family together - until the day when the man she loves, Pryce Pritchard, is involved in a fight, accidentally kills Sabrina's boyfriend, and is sent to jail. Sabrina runs away from home because she is pregnant and Rhianon finds her living in squalid conditions in a Cardiff slum. When the baby is born it is Rhianon who cares for him until Pryce is due to be released from prison after three long years and then Sabrina tells her that the child is his - which of them will he return to?
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SUNSHINE
AND SHOWERS
2005 Hardback; Paperback
Life seems to alternate between periods of stunning happiness for pretty seventeen-year-old Sheryl Williams after she marries dashing soldier Alun Powell, and times when bad luck and despair almost drown her happiness forever.
When their baby, Caitlin is born and Alun, having recently left the army, is unable to find work, they are reduced to living in Cardiff’s Tiger Bay. When Alun is involved in a vicious fight and imprisoned, estranged from her own family a desperate Sheryl is forced to turn to the Powells. At first reluctant to help, they agree to take in little Caitlin whilst Sheryl seeks work in Cardiff. Barely able to keep herself together Sheryl spirals into a life of unhappiness and despair, wondering if the will ever be able to look after Caitlin again.
Until one fateful day, seven year-old Caitlin takes off for Cardiff without a word to the Powells, in search of her mother. As night falls and the police continue to look for the young girl Sheryl is distraught and fears she will never see her beloved daughter again…
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THE
POWER OF DREAMS
2006 Hardback, Paperback
When all hope is gone, are dreams enough...? After losing both her parents, sixteen-year-old Merrion Roberts is left to bring up her baby sister. Unable to cope alone, she teams up with Rhonda Rees, a trained milliner, who also has a young baby. They share rooms in notorious Tiger Bay in Cardiff, struggling to make ends meet. In time, though, they are able to open up a little shop and it seems as if life is looking up for both young women. But, fate soon intervenes and they are reduced to living in even greater squalor, barely able to eke out enough money to support themselves let alone their two children. Meanwhile, Merrion's brother and her childhood sweetheart have both gone to sea and she has almost given up hope of ever seeing them alive again...
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SING
FOR YOUR SUPPER
2007 Hardback, Paperback
Karyn and Tudor Morgan have moved from a small mining community to the bustle and noise of Cardiff in search of a new life. Tudor longs to be a star entertainer and so Karyn gets a job leaving her husband to look after their young daughter Delia, as well as doing stints at clubs in the evenings whenever he can.
Until one day Tudor is arrested for begging and Karyn is horrified to learn that he has been busking during the day and taking three-year old Delia with him to collect the money.
When Tudor comes out of prison he gets an honest job but soon he is back to his old ways. And when his life of petty crime quickly turns into something far more sinister it is all Karyn can do to ensure she and her daughter survive..
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BOOK TO COME:
2007 Hardback, Paperback
Was she always to be fated in love...? When Gaynor's god-fearing father drives her childhood sweetheart away, she's certain she will never love again. But a young German soon helps Gaynor to forget her sorrows until with the war looming, Konrad is forced to return home to do his duty and Gaynor is left heartbroken once more. When her parents discover she's pregnant and insist she cannot keep the child, Gaynor runs away to Cardiff. Penniless and alone in a strange city, she is forced to give birth in the workhouse. Afterwards when she is taken in by a friendly Spanish family temptation comes her way once more and she falls for the charms of Pedro, the eldest son. But just when she thought she'd found love and a chance of happiness again a telegraph shatters her dreams. Finding herself pregnant she is faced with an even greater challenge when Pedro's family refuse to believe the child is his. Thrown out onto the street and at her wits end the future seems so bleak that Gaynor wonders if it is even worth going on
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