Catalog Search Results
1) Ragged Rose
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The heartwarming new novel from Dilly Court, the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of The Beggar Maid. With the fate of her family in her hands, Rose has to make a terrible choice. Be thrown onto the streets without a penny to her name, or watch her loved ones fall into ruin . . . Rose is keeping a dreadful secret, and too scared to ask her strict father for help, it's down to her to keep her brother from the hangman's noose - whatever it takes....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The new heartwarming novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Dilly Court. Clara held onto the precious button, glimmering like a jewel in the dark alleyways of London's notorious Seven Dials. She needed to save her family... but who was going to save her? There was a time when the Carter sisters' father was their hero. Now he's a drunk who's gambled away everything they had and put them all in peril. It's on Clara's shoulders to save the four...
Author
Language
English
Description
twenty-year-old Essie Chapman lives with her father in poverty stricken Limehouse, working on the river as a boatman. Her life seems set before her, never to leave this part of London and forever at her father's beck and call. Then, one night, she must transport a mysterious man from a foreign ship to the banks of the Thames, a man who ends up renting a room in Essie's house, identifying himself only as 'Raven'. When curiosity gets the better of her,...
Author
Language
English
Description
The brand new compelling novel from the Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly Court. Lottie Lane is all alone in the world. As a chambermaid at one of London's busiest inns, condemned to a life of drudgery and at the mercy of a vicious landlady, Lottie is too worn out to even dream of a better life. Until one night an injured soldier is brought to The Swan. Lottie nurses him back from the dead and suddenly everything changes. She finds herself following...
Author
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas Eve. Flurries of snow fall on the cobbled streets of Whitechapel and an abandoned baby, swaddled in a blanket, is found on a doorstep in Angel Lane . . . Named after the street on which she was found, Angel Winter was blessed to be taken from the harsh streets into a loving home. But fate deals a cruel blow and she's torn from the only family she has ever known, and thrown onto the cobbles of Covent Garden to fend for herself. With...
Author
Language
English
Description
The second book in the dramatic new Village Secrets trilogy from the Sunday Times bestselling author.
It was her wedding day... the roses and bluebells were blooming and their sweet-scent was filling the air, so why did Daisy feel the cold fingers of fear run down her spine?
Spring in the village, April 1869.
It's spring in Little Creek and wedding bells are ringing. After their hasty marriage the Christmas before, Daisy Marshall is overjoyed to be...
Author
Language
English
Description
The second book in a stunning new series from Sunday Times bestseller, Dilly Court 1873. When Carrie Manning's father dies her mother, Esther, is heartbroken. Essie leaves London to convalesce with her good friend Lady Alice, and it is down to Carrie to look after her family and take charge of the shipping company that her father has left behind. But the company is in dire straits, forcing Carrie seek work as a companion to Maria Colville. When Carrie...
Author
Language
English
Description
Standing on London's Victoria docks with the wind biting through her shawl, Rose Munday realizes she's been abandoned by her sweetheart. She had risked everything to get to London but, stumbling through the pea soup fog, she has nowhere to go, and no one to turn to. Scared and alone, Rose steps straight into danger, only to be rescued by two women with even less to their names - a woman of the night and her young sidekick, Sparrow. With only a cluster...
Author
Language
English
Description
Dolly's dreams could lead her astray...
Dolly Blanchard dreams of a bigger life. She wants to make a mark on the world, not simply wait for a husband to come along. So, when an impoverished actress offers her a lifeline, Dolly flees to London, determined to make it on the stage and prove to her family—and herself—that she can strike out alone.
But the dark city streets are full of danger. With her dreams fading to dust, Dolly soon finds herself...
10) Runaway Widow
Author
Language
English
Description
Don't miss the third book in the heartwarming six-part series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court! When Patricia's husband dies suddenly, she is left with nothing. A twenty-two she finds herself a penniless widow with nowhere to turn. Determined not to rely on her family's generosity or to return to her childhood home, Rockwood Castle, Patricia decides to strike out on her own. Inspired by her mother's career as an opera singer,...
11) Winter Wedding
Author
Language
English
Description
You are the heart of Rockwood. Never forget that.
Christmas is coming. But, the happiest time of the year is marred by a cruel twist of fate. Rosalind Blanchard's husband Piers is gravely wounded in a shipwreck, and she finds herself head of crumbling Rockwood Castle once more. Pregnant with his unborn child and alone, she turns to the only man who has ever made her heart sing. His brother Alex.
Alex was her old love, but Piers must be her future....
12) Sunday's Child
Author
Language
English
Description
Left on the steps of an orphanage, when she was just days old, Nancy Sunday was brought up in hardship - until the kindly Rosalind Carey took her in. Now eighteen-years-old, Nancy is an adopted member of the Carey family. But, she can't help wondering who her parents really were... When Nancy is sent away to finishing school, she finds herself in the midst of London society. There she meets Freddie Ashton — kind and warm-hearted, he might just be...
Author
Language
English
Description
Don't miss the brand-new six-part series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court! The first in a spellbinding six-part new series set in crumbling Rockwood Castle. Meet headstrong and passionate Rosalind, who will do anything and everything to protect the one place she calls home.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
She turned the picture of the Christmas card over with her frozen hands, a pretty picture of a family gathering at Yuletide. How different from her own life; stiff with cold on the icy cobbles, aching for shelter . . . When her father dies leaving Alice and her ailing mother with only his debts, the two grieving women are forced to rely on the begrudging charity of cruel Aunt Jane. Determined to rid herself of an expensive responsibility, Jane tries...
Author
Language
English
Description
Don't miss the first book in the dramatic new saga from the Sunday Times bestselling author.
Holding the letter in trembling hands, Daisy's future crumbled before her - the words engraved on her heart forever. The village of Little Creek, the long winter of 1867 The first flakes of snow are falling when Daisy Marshall, secretly engaged to her master's son, finds herself jilted at the altar. Heartbroken, Daisy flees to the small village of Little...
16) Nettie's Secret
Author
Language
English
Description
The new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author.
Taking one last look around her attic room in Covent Garden Nettie knows there is no turning back, they must run for their lives...
London, 1875. Thanks to her hapless father, Nettie Carroll has had to grow up quickly. While Nettie is sewing night and day to keep food on the table, her gullible father has trusted the wrong man again. Left with virtually nothing but the clothes they stand up in,...
Author
Language
English
Description
Don't miss the brand-new festive saga from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court! Paradise Row, London. December 1865. Snow is falling fast and Sally Suggs is working tirelessly to bring in enough money to keep bread on the table. Her father, a skilled rag-and-bone man, has fallen ill and now Sally has taken up his trade. But, this is a man's world and competition is fierce, and Sally's rival Finn Kelly always seems to be one step ahead....
Author
Language
English
Description
The third book in the dramatic new Village Secrets trilogy from the bestselling author.
The time had come to leave Creek Manor. Their relationship was doomed from the start, he was the master of the house and she the servant...
Summer, Little Creek 1879
For most of her life, Judy Begg has been a loyal servant at Creek Manor and to Jack Fox, its future lord. But just as their childhood friendship blossoms into a secret engagement he abandons her...
Borrow from another library
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Darien Library can be requested from other libraries via our interlibrary loan system (ILL).